OBAMACARE or OBAMACRAP?

ObamaCare has a Silver Lining.

There is a silver lining to the strange and surprising Supreme Court ruling on ObamaCare.    The most obvious part of that silver lining is that it is now a rallying cry for Romney and for the repeal of Obamacare.  It must however go much further than that.    It must be a repudiation so strong that the Court's decision itself is repudiated.

I believe that will happen, and there is a precedent.  In 1798, Congress passed the Alien & Sedition Acts, making it a crime to criticize the government.  There was a huge outcry against the Acts, but the lower courts upheld them as constitutional.  Thomas Jefferson waged his campaign for President in the Election of 1800 largely on repudiating those Acts.  He was successful, but the Acts were not just repealed (or more accurately, left to expire).  They were repudiated.  Jefferson pardoned every one of the conscientious objectors who had been convicted under the Acts, and the judgment of history has been that the Court decisions holding the Acts constitutional were profoundly wrong.  That is the exercise of true power by a truly sovereign people.

We need to begin now by having an honest debate about the value of ObamaCare, which, frankly, is a complete fraud.  For example; Supporters tout that children up to 26 years old can remain on their parents’ plans, but never mention that the parents must then pay for comprehensive insurance plans that cost substantially more than healthy young adults can obtain on their own.  They applaud the elimination of lifetime caps on payments by insurance companies without pointing out the obvious consequence that premiums will increase significantly to cover these costs.  And these are just two of the many flies in the ointment. There are many more misleading claims.

Now we must convey how deceptive this law is at its core.  If you don’t believe me, believe Obama’s Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration.  He stated “The ACA represents the largest set of tax law changes in more than 20 years and presents a major challenge to the Internal Revenue Service.”  (ACA = affordable care act)  It includes 20 new taxes (now 21 after Roberts’ ruling), few of which have gone into effect and most of which are deviously imposed on us by raising them on third parties.  For example, there is a new tax on medical devices that will be passed through to insurance companies – and then, of course, to policyholders (you).  Democrats have already imposed a new tax on pharmaceutical companies, which raises the cost of your prescriptions through higher premiums or larger out-of-pocket costs.

Americans need to familiarize themselves with these 21 new taxes and realize that when our medical costs and insurance premiums costs soar, it is ultimately ObamaCare that is responsible.  Furthermore, these tax rates will inevitably increase, with the overwhelming portion of the burden squarely on the shoulders of the middle class.  That’s because that’s where the money is.

We have to inform the American people that there are 157 commissions and boards that will start going into effect in 2013. These will be filled with government hacks who are convinced that they know how the health care system should operate.  They will write thousands of pages of regulations and make decisions for every one of us.  Your health care will no longer be determined by you or your doctor.
It is now very clear that ObamaCare is a huge tax increase that will hit every working American – specifically the working class upon whom Obama promised not to raise taxes.  The law will put a stranglehold around the neck of all Americans, and ultimately centralize every decision about health care in Washington.

I’m not saying our health care system is perfect as is.  It does need some fine tuning, but I don’t know of any country anywhere that has a better one.   Mr. Romney must, with the help of all of us, communicate to the electorate that ObamaCare is a disaster.  Justice Roberts has given us that opportunity.  If we cannot accomplish this goal, we deserve to lose the election – a loss that would put an end to the America we know and Obama’s dream come true.


Is everybody forgetting that the Constitution does not permit a single penny of the people’s money to be appropriated without consent of the House of Representatives, and who controls the house?

That’s right, the Republicans do.  They don’t have to wait for the election.   They could just refuse to allocate any funding for Obamacare.  All it takes is the will to defend the republic and the integrity to truly mean it when you swear your oath of office.

Maybe it’s time for everyone to write a letter to their congressman and remind them.

Our rallying cry should now be: 

No Taxation by Misrepresentation!