The lies Obama told about the tax increase in his socialist-run healthcare is no surprise; the fact that it’s actually being reported by B. Hussein’s tools in the New York Times, is quite a revelation.
When Congress required most Americans to obtain health insurance or pay a penalty, Democrats denied that they were creating a new tax. But in court, the Obama administration and its allies now defend the requirement as an exercise of the government’s “power to lay and collect taxes.”
And that power, they say, is even more sweeping than the federal power to regulate interstate commerce.
Administration officials say the tax argument is a linchpin of their legal case in defense of the health care overhaul and its individual mandate, now being challenged in court by more than 20 states and several private organizations.
Under the legislation signed by President Obama in March, most Americans will have to maintain “minimum essential coverage” starting in 2014. Many people will be eligible for federal subsidies to help them pay premiums.
In a brief defending the law, the Justice Department says the requirement for people to carry insurance or pay the penalty is “a valid exercise” of Congress’s power to impose taxes.
Congress can use its taxing power “even for purposes that would exceed its powers under other provisions” of the Constitution, the department said. For more than a century, it added, the Supreme Court has held that Congress can tax activities that it could not reach by using its power to regulate commerce.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/18/health/policy/18health.html
Didja get that? Eric Holder’s DOJ mafia has declared that Congress can trash the Constitution by imposing taxing power not allowed by the Constitution.
Have you people had enough of Obama’s thugs yet?
Related posts:
http://sfcmac.wordpress.com/2010/06/24/dems-were-not-bound-to-any-promise-not-to-increase-taxes/
http://sfcmac.wordpress.com/2010/04/24/say-it-aint-soobamacare-will-raise-taxes/