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What will be the outcome of Supreme Court and Obamacare or ACA?
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<blockquote data-quote="brett636" data-source="post: 957419" data-attributes="member: 249"><p>You are confusing the penalty as set in Obamacare with a tax. It isn't, and was stated so during the Supreme Court arguments. Congress has the power to levy taxes as per the constitution, but by definition a tax is defined as an act of congress with the intention of raising revenue(while in reality not all taxes raise revenue, its the intention that counts here). The penalty ideally would not raise any revenue if everyone would simply get health insurance, and while we know this just will not happen its not the intention meaning the penalty is not a tax. So if this stands what other penalties can Congress enact for the individual not acting in their prescribed manner? How about the next time someone buys a meal at a restaurant they must buy a side of steamed broccoli otherwise Congress will force that resturant to charge twice the price for the meal? How about Congress enact that I must buy my burial plot by a certain age or pay a penalty since at some point I will need to be buried. </p><p></p><p>This is one of the many things that gets frightening when the government decides it gets a hand in an individual's healthcare, because once the government has a financial interest it can then expand its regulatory powers to coerce and or regulate that individuals activities. Even if those activities are considered normal and customary for a free individual. Government getting its hand into how healthcare is run and administered only means less freedom for the individual.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="brett636, post: 957419, member: 249"] You are confusing the penalty as set in Obamacare with a tax. It isn't, and was stated so during the Supreme Court arguments. Congress has the power to levy taxes as per the constitution, but by definition a tax is defined as an act of congress with the intention of raising revenue(while in reality not all taxes raise revenue, its the intention that counts here). The penalty ideally would not raise any revenue if everyone would simply get health insurance, and while we know this just will not happen its not the intention meaning the penalty is not a tax. So if this stands what other penalties can Congress enact for the individual not acting in their prescribed manner? How about the next time someone buys a meal at a restaurant they must buy a side of steamed broccoli otherwise Congress will force that resturant to charge twice the price for the meal? How about Congress enact that I must buy my burial plot by a certain age or pay a penalty since at some point I will need to be buried. This is one of the many things that gets frightening when the government decides it gets a hand in an individual's healthcare, because once the government has a financial interest it can then expand its regulatory powers to coerce and or regulate that individuals activities. Even if those activities are considered normal and customary for a free individual. Government getting its hand into how healthcare is run and administered only means less freedom for the individual. [/QUOTE]
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