Obamacare to Unleash Crushing New Taxes, Trillions in Debt, and Doesn’t Even Cover Natural Medicine

Mike Adams

Natural News.com

June 30, 2012

By now, we all know the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the individual
mandate portion of Obamacare by declaring it a “tax.” This is, in
essence, a declaration that the federal government now has unlimited
power to force consumers to spend some (or even all) of their take-home
pay on various products, services or even intellectual property that
they have no interest in buying in the first place. It is a concentration of economic power in the hands of the federal government, and it suddenly ends economic liberty in America (http://www.naturalnews.com/036329_Obamacare_Supreme_Court_eco...).

It’s also the largest tax increase in the history of the United States.
By upholding Obamacare’s individual mandate as a “tax,” Chief Justice
Robert just labeled President Obama the largest tax increase President
in the history of the country! (http://decoded.nationaljournal.com/2012/06/roberts-labels-oba...)

And yet President Obama himself declared the individual mandate was NOT a tax. Here’s the video: http://abcnews.go.com/ThisWeek/video?id=8620606

And here’s the transcript of his interview with George Stephanopoulos:
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2009/09/obama-mandate-is...

But now, of course, Chief Justice Roberts has declared it IS a tax,
after all. Thus, Obama’s key legislative achievement has become the single greatest legislative deception in the history of America.

How much will this new tax cost you? The Washington Post has published a handy online calculator:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/politics/what-he...

It shows that the new tax begins in 2014, then ramps up to its
maximum penalty at 2016, at which point you are taxed year after year
until you cave in and buy into the monopoly Big Pharma health insurance
scam. This is, for the record, the largest tax increase in history. And it’s for a system of medicine which is a Big Pharma monopoly that doesn’t even give consumers the freedom to choose natural medicine or alternative therapies!

21 new taxes on Americans

The high court’s ruling leaves in place 21 tax increases in the
health-care law costing more than $675 billion over the next 10 years,
according to the House Ways and Means Committee. Of those, 12 tax hikes
would affect families earning less than $250,000 per year, the panel
said, including a “Cadillac tax” on high-cost insurance plans, a tax on
insurance providers, and an excise tax on medical device manufacturers. (http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/jun/28/republicans-r...)

Now that Obamacare’s penalty is a “tax,” not a “fee,” Mr. Obama is
breaking a 2008 campaign pledge not to raise taxes on Americans earning
less than $250,000. This new “tax” will hit across the economic
spectrum, despite his campaign declaration that health care should
“never be purchased with tax increase on middle-class families.” Now,
Mr. Obama and congressional Democrats have enacted the largest tax
increase in history.
(http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/jun/28/curl-roberts-...)

Federal government can now order you to engage in selected commerce

For the record, under the precedent now set by the U.S. Supreme Court, the federal government can simply order you
to engage in whatever commerce the government chooses. All they have to
do is create a penalty for refusing to go along with their order, and
characterize the penalty as a “tax.”

Ron Paul gets it. He understands the simple truth that the government has no power to compel
people to engage in commerce. “The insurance mandate clearly exceeds
the federal government’s powers under the interstate commerce clause
found in Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution,” writes Ron Paul.
“This is patently obvious: the power to ‘regulate’ commerce cannot
include the power to compel commerce! Those who claim otherwise simply
ignore the plain meaning of the Constitution because they don’t want to
limit federal power in any way. The commerce clause was intended simply
to give Congress the power to regulate foreign trade, and also to
prevent states from imposing tariffs on interstate goods. In Federalist
Paper No. 22, Alexander Hamilton makes it clear the simple intent behind
the clause was to prevent states from placing tolls or tariffs on goods
as they passed through each state — a practice that had proven
particularly destructive across the many principalities of the German
empire.” (http://lewrockwell.com/paul/paul799.html)

Health insurance premiums will soar

Obamacare is going to absolutely shred the infrastructure of our
medical system, it is going to send health insurance premiums soaring,
it is going to dramatically expand the size and the scope of government,
it is going to fundamentally alter the relationships between doctors
and their patients and it is one of the largest tax increases in U.S.
history. Not only that, it is also going to add about a trillion
dollars to our national debt over the next decade. So no, the Obamacare
decision is not good news. Obamacare was one of the worst pieces of
legislation in American history, and now we are stuck with it.
http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/15-reasons-why-the-...

Huge political revolt now expected

What are the political ramifications of all this? Obamacare remains
widely hated by much of the U.S. population — at least the portion of
the population that actually works for a living — and this Supreme Court
decision will likely ruffle even more feathers of taxpayers who are
tired of being pick-pocketed by the federal government at every turn.
While most people don’t mind paying some reasonable level of tax to the
feds, having the government invade your take-home pay and start forcing
you to spend it on things you may or may not want is another thing
entirely.

Because of the backlash against this law, it seems almost certain
that this Supreme Court decision will play right into the hands of Mitt
Romney, who will now make repealing Obamacare the centerpiece of his
election campaign. He has already stated, in the Weekly Standard, “If We
Want to Get Rid of Obamacare, We’re Going to Have to Replace President
Obama.” (http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/romney-if-we-want-get-rid...)

But even if Obama is replaced in the White House, the damage has
already been done. With its decision, the U.S. Supreme Court has set a
precedent of government control over private paychecks, and that
precedent has fundamentally crushed economic freedom in America and
opened the door to limitless taxes for everything imaginable. King George III couldn’t have done it better.

Nevertheless, based on this decision I now predict a sweeping victory for Republicans in the 2012 elections
as a backlash against Obamacare. I’m not saying I support Romney or the
Republicans, because I think all politicians are crooks for the most
part, and I agree with Gov. Jesse Ventura that the two-party system is
largely just two criminal gangs jockeying for power on how they can
exploit the people they claim to represent. Whether it’s DemoCRIPS or
ReBLOODlicans in power, they’re all political gangstas.

Even if Romney takes office next January, actually repealing
Obamacare would be almost impossible to achieve, by the way. Unraveling
bad laws is far more difficult than getting them passed in the first
place. It would take a true taxpayer revolt to pull it off.

The American revolution just inched one step closer to reality

We may be headed for that sooner than you think, by the way. With this
decision to seize control of the money right out of your own paycheck,
the moral collapse of the U.S. government is now complete. Once this
“tax” starts to come due, many taxpayers will be in a state of near
revolt. That, coupled with the economic collapse heading our way from
the EU, will bring many Americans to a point of financial desperation.

It is from such conditions that, historically, revolutions emerge.
And that’s assuming we even make it to 2014 when the Obamacare tax is
supposed to be levied on the American people. By some estimates, the
U.S. government may suffer a crushing financial collapse between 2012
and 2015. If the government collapses, Obamacare and all the other bad
laws go down with it: the Patriot Act, the DMCA, the NDAA, and so on.
That’s the one interesting thing about human history: Every time
governments become too large, too bloated and too deeply invested in
crushing liberty, the People eventually rise up against the injustices
and take their country back, starting with a clean slate (which
eventually becomes corrupt a few years later, of course).

It is the cycle of human civilization… the rise and fall of
civilizations. We are living in the time of the fall of the American
empire, and it’s going to get a lot worse before it gets better. Hope
you’re ready to live in “interesting times,” because we all have a front
row seat to history in the making.