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I’m amazed than a state as backwards as China can pull itself up by the bootstraps and lead the charge against unconstitutional corruption in its highest coyrt, while in America we applaude the Supreme Court’s rapid decline.
The world has turned itself upside down.
It’s only because recent Supreme Court cases have aligned to the agenda of politically-correct mainstream neoliberalism. If the court had not illegally re-written the ACA (twice) and instead had ruled it unconstitutional, likewise if the court had ruled there was no constitutional right to gay marriage then we would probably be seeing similar calls to investigate “corruption” in our own court too.
Sky is falling (yet again), blame the Supreme Court.
We’re seeing it anyway, just not from the left. i think it was Ted Cruz who suggested we hold recall elections of Supreme Court justices.
And the court didn’t rewrite anything. More right wing talking points from someone who disavows the label while nonetheless parroting the rhetoric perfectly. Yawn.
These justices should be recalled from office.
Saying that a penalty written into the law, a penalty for not doing something, is a “tax” is absurd. A tax is added to something that is already happening or happened, in an economic sense,
That is the legal or economic definition. Not at all the same as a “penalty for choosing not to do something”. You can’t be “taxed on” something that never happened.
The manipulative trickery involved by the court is staggering. Just as is your unthinking blind obedience. That latter is actually the scarier part of all this.
And if that weren’t enough the court then chose to utterly ignore the ACA itself and say that by “states that set up exchanges” this actually means “states of the federal government”. Ha. Despite the language in the law unambiguously making clear the distinction between states and the federal government, and despite the law intentionally being written that way so subsidies would not apply to states whose governors didn’t set up a state exchange.
The court re-wrote the actual text of the law to save the law from itself. Twice.
This isn’t “talking points” it is simply what happened. I’m sorry you are such an ideologue that you are unable to tell the difference between facts and right-wing lies. Just because you can’t distinguish when something is true and when something is merely an ideologically untrue “talking point” (yes the right has many of those too, just like the left does) doesn’t mean I’m a “right winger” for adhering to a truth that conservatives happen to also adhere to. I adhere to it because it is true, they adhere to it because it happens to serve their momentary interest. You ought to try differentiating between those two motives.
The fact a “tax” was passed in the Senate without ever existing in the House of Representatives scares me, but I don’t know if the court was even aware then that was the case. I blame Obama and the then Senate for that, Harry Reid. We did that Boston Tea Party “No Taxation Without Respresentation” thing for a reason.
I will never pay it, period. It costs the courts and IRS more to audit me than they can ever hope to reap, plain and simple, I’m a American, we don’t do that crazy shit here. Want my money, go to the House of Representatives and pass a tax bill.
And heads up, I’m not working in any damn levy either, nor am I garrisoning troops where I live, and all the other Revolutionary War assurances we were promised wouldn’t happen. Its only ‘no big deal’ to the current winners, it doesn’t occur to this this is a precedent that other ideologies will use with ugly force against you in the future. Literally no awareness whatsoever of future consequence. Absolutely disturbed by this aspect, how fucking ignorant and self absorbed we’ve become.
I’m more worried about the constitutional collapse the last few years than liberalism vs conservatism, or even gay marriage. I read world history all the time, we are definitely past tottering on the edge, were now downhill skiing towards the inevitable clash. People think I’m talking about conflicting values, no, I’m talking about our system turning demented and breaking up into uncooperative little pieces. I can’t say who’s political party is going to end up with what piece of the old federal government at the seemingly random point that happens. A lot of different patterns. What happens if the president (not Obama, a future president) gets impeached by one congress but is accepted by another? What units will back who? I’m guessing federal courts go with the territory they are in, but alot of the government, hard to tell. No one faction will trust the other after this trail of insanity.
All easily answered questions for a nation of laws. But we sort of turned the corner on that during this administration. We’re now a nation where the charismatic lefist gets what he wants, regardless of the law- it seems all law has become legalize; if you can say it with a straight face and use the right jargon, it becomes a valid interpretation of the law. Assuming, of course, it advances the cause.
Exactly.
i’m learning to really find the political right’s response funny and entertaining when it loses a political battle (or a string of them, as has happened recently). It hates government, but it’s all about “the law”. It loses the gay-rights fight, we’ve become a lawless nation. A law is passed requiring them to have health insurance, we’ve become totalitarian nation. Which is it? Doesn’t matter to them, it’s all just knee-jerk bullshit.
Suck it up, little boys. Goose and gander.