Obamacare: Before and After

Obamacare: Before and After - Discover the Networks

* On June 28, 2012, the Supreme Court issued its ruling in the Obamacare case. In a 5-4 decision, the Court, led by Chief Justice John Roberts, rejected the Commerce Clause argument but agreed with Solicitor General Verrilli that the mandate simultaneously was, and was not, a tax—and that the ACA therefore could proceed as the law of the land.

* “The government and those who support its position on this point make the remarkable argument that [the mandate] is not a tax for purposes of the Anti-Injunction Act, but is a tax for constitutional purposes,” wrote the dissenting Justices (Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy, Clarence Thomas, and Samuel Alito). “That carries verbal wizardry too far, deep into the forbidden land of the sophists.”

* Former U.S. Attorney Andrew C. McCarthy condemned the Supreme Court's decision as follows:

“Just as an appeals court may not legitimately rewrite an indictment and revise what happened at a trial, neither may it legitimately rewrite a statute and fabricate an imaginary congressional record. But today, the Supreme Court rewrote a law—which it has no constitutional authority to do—and treated it as if it were forthrightly, legitimately enacted. Further, it shielded the political branches from accountability for raising taxes, knowing full well that, had Obama and the Democrats leveled with the public that ObamaCare entailed a huge tax hike, it would never have had the votes to pass. The ObamaCare mandate was enacted as a penalty flowing from Congress’s Commerce Clause power. It has been upheld as a tax flowing from Congress’s power to tax-and-spend under the General Welfare Clause.”

 Here is an analysis of Obamacare, the ever changing "law" that really isn't a law.

Obama(Liberal)Care is about government power, control, and destruction.