Sorry I’ve been away from political commentary for a week, but I see the Supreme Court decided that federal government can now tax us for doing nothing. You can just be sitting around your house, bothering no one, not buying health care insurance, and then — BOOM! — tax. That sucks, because doing nothing is like one of my favorite things. But now the IRS will probably be putting monitors on our couches to tell how long we’ve been sitting on them and then tax you for that.
Man, it used to be the Democrats would just sit around all day trying to think of new things to tax, and now they don’t have to think of anything anymore since nothingness is now taxed. Oh well, I guess that’s why we need to get the Republicans back in charge as they’ll probably only tax us for things we do like drinking, smoking, and earning an income — all the things the government wants to discourage us from.
But man, were we hoping the Supreme Court was going to strike down Obamacare, but then Roberts went all crazy. I mean, even the people who are happy he upheld the individual mandate are like, “I’d hug Roberts for this, but I don’t want to get the crazy on me.” No one knows how he got to his “unconstitutional punishment, constitutional tax” stance, but that Constitution is always full of magical new things the courts keep discovering.
So, we still need to take down Obamacare ourselves. I keep using the analogy of a kid getting a toy he really wanted for Christmas with the liberals being the kid. With our hopes that the Supreme Court would strike it down, that was like the kid getting his precious toy, squealing with glee, and then soon after he took it out of the box to play with it, it broke. That didn’t happen. So instead the kid will get to play with it a while, and then, using the legislature, we’ll wrest the toy away from the kid and smash it in front of him. And since Republicans have figured out they can use reconciliation to get rid of the mandate, all they need is a majority in the Senate to strike down Obamacare which most people think they will get this year. Then they just need a president who will sign off on that. So, you know, that guy — Romney. We’ll have to rally behind him. But won’t it be worth it to see tears and snot stream down the face of an inconsolable child?
UPDATE: Linked by Finance Bar
Yeah, but did John Boehner and Mitch McConnell get backbones for Christmas? I thought not. They need to be replaced with conservative leadership. Today, if possible.
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Aince we have a do nothing congress, the government should have plenty of money from taxing those do-nothingers.
Your Christmas child analogy only works if you envisage the kid as the one from The Bad Seed.
hey, there’s nothing unusual about an “existence tax”. Most socialist countries have it.
Ah, but Frank, you must understand that as I sit here, I am not doing nothing. I sharpen knives. I clean my guns, and those that don’t need to be cleaned get rubbed with an oil cloth to keep rust away. Or, I read a book like Adam Smith’s tome on economic theory, or John Keegan’s History of WW2. And, sometimes as I sit, apparently doing nothing, I am actually inspecting the inside of my eyelids for pinholes. Such inspection can take a few hours. I suppose such proactive, pre-emptive inspection works quite well, as I have yet to discover any pinholes. So, if Ear Leader really wants to tax my inactivity, I invite him to PERSONALLY come and try to collect the tax. Although I cannot pay him in cash, or gold or silver, I do have other precious metals I would be glad to give to him … on ounce at a time.
Ogrrre, you’ve got to stop stabbing yourself in the eye with pins.
So basically it is a tax just for being a citizen of this country, good thing the Supreme Court says I dont have to prove I am a citizen.
Who knew that the 16th Amendment overrides the rest of the Constitution? I think we’re going to have to do something about that. Scalpel!