Comments on: SCOTUS established a jizya tax?

By: mojo

mojo — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 15:18:45 +0000

“If you’re going to shoot, shoot. Don’t talk!”

By: rickn8or

rickn8or — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 15:10:09 +0000

PeggyU– Strip poker with Ginsberg… Okay, got the brain bleach, where’s my steel-wire brush?

By: rickn8or

rickn8or — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 15:07:47 +0000

Congress built a house. It’s got a red tile roof, purple drop siding, and orange and green trim. With gargoyles.

The building inspector comes out and looks at it. He says “electrical’s up to code, structure’s up to code, plumbing’s up to code.” He does NOT say “Burn it! Burn it with fire cause it’s the most hideous structure ever built!”

Same with Roberts. His job is to examine the mechanics of the law, not the esthetics. I don’t like his ruling either, but it’s a Christmas-in-July to the conservatives and independants, to galvanize them to remove Teh Won and his minions.

This “it’s not a tax but it IS a tax” should be hung around everyone who voted for this obscenity. Pitchforks and torches should be applied to those people that arranged for Al “Dull-Normal” Franken to become the 60th vote.

I’m more perurbed that it’s now officially okay to lie about receiving the Medal of Honor instead of getting the ass-beating such a statement deserves.

By: Hog Whitman

Hog Whitman — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 15:05:50 +0000

Just the word "jizya" sounds kinda pr0n to me, but maybe that's just me.

By: joe

joe — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 14:56:34 +0000

I don’t think the door was slammed on the Commerce Clause. The ramblings from Roberts were not a relevant part of the decision and are no more precedent than the dissenting justices’ opinions. What is precedent now is that the only obstacle in passing any future legislation is deciding how to make it tax based. Any blathering Roberts did would hold as much weight in a dissenting opinion as they did in his sellout. By re-writing the law, he put himself in the legislative camp. He violated the Constitution by doing so. He should be impeached and banned from the bench for life.

The decision might have fired up conservatives for a while and I’m glad Romney benefited from it financially but no one will remember this in November except the people who were not going to vote for Obama to begin with. With Romney Care there to haunt him, it’s child’s play to turn any negatives he might project on Obama right back on him.

Roberts handed Obama his second term and any positive spin put on this decision to the contrary is wishful thinking. If he was trying to set a trap for Obama, he was too clever by half.

If a ‘tax’ that ultimately ends up in private hands can be levied on you at the whim of the government is constitutional by Roberts’ way of thinking, just what could a future administration not do.

By: logdogsmith

logdogsmith — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 14:54:08 +0000

LONG GAME

By: Paladin

Paladin — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 14:39:21 +0000

Jonah Goldberg has a column on this:

http://townhall.com/columnists/jonahgoldberg/2012/06/29/roberts_ruling_took_guts/page/full/

By: Claire: pink pig barbarian, etc

Claire: pink pig barbarian, etc — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 14:25:17 +0000

But… but… but…. The Court decided it *wasn’t* a taxso that they could actually hear it this year [vs in a couplafew years] on the basis of the Anti-Injunction Act, which said a tax cannot be challenged in court until a real person has actually had to pay that tax.

What’re we gonna tax now?!? Refusal to buy a gym membership? Refusal to buy a Chevy reVolting?

I’m so confused I’m gonna need anti-seizure meds….
Which I will be taxed for refusing to take.

By: geezerette

geezerette — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 13:42:16 +0000

^^^ Yeah Clap clap ^^^ fainting here^^^ F’n AAAA ^^^

By: Colonel Jerry USMC

Colonel Jerry USMC — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 13:33:00 +0000

Things that I noticed while gazing through heavy lenses:
1. Candidate Mittens raised more than 4 million bucks in about 24 fucking hours!
2. The Supremes CLOSED the fucking door on the Commerce Clause!!
3. Every fucking TEA PARTY in these United States had a emergency meeting last night!!!
4. OBoBo now has one fucking option: CAMPAIGN on TAXING the middle class!!!!
5. 70 fucking % of Americans STILL oppose OBoBocare!!!!!
6. Likely futuah fucking argument: A fucking TAX has to originate in the fucking HOUSE, not the Senate!!!!!!
7. A hole buncha fucking STATES will decline OboBocare & OBoBo cain`t do a fucking thing about it!!!!!!!
8. Stoopid Party candidates who DO NOT sign in blood that they will vote to repeal fucking OBoBocare are fucking TOAST!!!!!!!!
9. All WE need is 50 fucking Senators (the VP being numma 51…) an REPEAL is a done fucking dealio!!!!!!!!!
10. The fucking RATz can not filibuster a TAX issue!!!!!!!!!!

An on TOP of all this fucking shit? Fucking Holder will have to stand trial for fucking MURDER! (Justice West of the Sandpiper, morons———–)