Posted in Obama, On The Marque, health care, law, politics, tagged Eric Holder, health insurance mandate, Korea, law, Obama, On The Marque, politics, terrorism on November 19, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Because it’s been too long since the last one.
As regular readers will know, I’m incredibly passionate about the Orwellian freakishness that is the health insurance mandate in Obamacare. Unfortunately, it’s so wrong on so many levels, it’s sometimes hard to explain why without being, well, verbose (ahem). Luckily, there are writers whose clean language, pure [...]
Posted in health care, politics, tagged Congress, health care, health insurance mandate, Obama, politics on November 6, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The House Ways and Means Committee confirmed today that the mandate provisions in Pelosicare will follow the form we’ve all expected: obey or go to jail. While it’s an unconstitutional, brutal, and outrageous provision, it does crystallize the legal issues in a way the Senate bill does not. These people have abandoned any pretense of [...]
Posted in health care, law, politics, tagged constitution, health care, health insurance mandate, Obama on October 31, 2009 | 10 Comments »
As you know, this blog has explored several ways whereby the proposed mandate that everyone obtain health insurance is unconstitutional. Ignoring entirely the advice of this blog, the Senate Finance Committee reported out a bill that included a mandate, albeit a watered-down one. In fact, it appears that any bill that will be voted on [...]
Posted in Obama, health care, law, politics, tagged constitution, health care, health insurance mandate, Obama, politics, slavery, thirteenth amendment on September 25, 2009 | 10 Comments »
In an earlier post, I explored whether the Obama health insurance mandate was constitutional in a positive sense — is the federal government empowered to take this action? But through the very interesting debate that resulted from that post, it occurred to me that there is a second question that needs to be asked. Does [...]
Posted in Obama, health care, law, politics, tagged constitution, health care, health insurance mandate, law, Obama, politics, unconstitutional on September 22, 2009 | 14 Comments »
The federal government has three ways it can obtain a law-abiding American’s property:
1. It can tax you. Taxation is the power of the government to force transfers of cash from owners to itself. It is a broad power, expressly stated in the Constitution:
The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts, and [...]
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