High court upholds Obama health care law

Well, it’s now official. We are all slaves and have absolutely no personal freedoms.

Given the recent ruling on ObamaCare, according to the U.S. Supreme Court there are no restrictions on the power of the federal government. The government can compel people to do anything it wants them to, as the penalty for non-compliance will merely be considered a “tax.”

Look soon for various restrictions on ownership of firearms, freedom of speech and freedom of religion. In short, expect a complete trashing of the Bill of Rights under the guise of taxation.

I can’t recall who said it, but whoever said “the power to tax is the power to destroy” sure had it right.

My apologies to all the “nutjobs” who have been warning us for years that this was going to happen. They were absolutely right all along.

I am ashamed to be part of the generation that allowed this to happen. But what can you do when more than half of the citizens in a democracy want to live in slavery?

James Moldenhauer

North Las Vegas

To the editor:

Waa, waa. That’s the sound coming from the Review-Journal editorial board. That means the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the health care law.

Looks like you got it wrong.

Good for the American people. Now most of us will no longer have to subsidize those who use the emergency room as a free primary care physician.

James M. Jones

Las Vegas

To the editor:

The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to uphold ObamaCare on the narrow grounds that the bill’s controversial individual mandate is a tax – which the president argued repeatedly to the American public it was not – reminds us all of the grave importance our Constitution and the founders put on the political process and elections in our republican system.

While a more lasting solution – if Americans decide they would rather not delegate to the government the power to tax inactivity – would be to amend the Constitution appropriately, the elections in November offer what is now the only immediate opportunity to call a halt to such perverse and misguided schemes.

As one who was sitting on the sidelines before this ruling, I will now take up the gantlet laid down by Chief Justice Roberts, who wrote, “Because the Constitution permits such a tax, it is not our role to forbid it, or to pass upon its wisdom or fairness.” Well, if the Supreme Court cannot pass upon ObamaCare’s “wisdom or fairness,” then the responsibility falls squarely on the shoulders of the American people.

I, for one, will not shirk from defending my rights in one of the only ways now left to me. This election is not the end of a fight to regain our autonomy and our responsibilities, but merely amongst the opening scenes.

I hope others will join me in what is now the only glorious cause left – the fight for the “sacred fire of liberty” that our greatest president correctly foresaw as staked on our experiment in republican self government.

Alexander Marriott

Las Vegas

To the editor:

I weep for our country.

Marvin Miller

Las Vegas

To the editor:

Does Mitt Romney really believe Mitt Romney? If so, he must be one of the biggest hypocrites around.

After ObamaCare was upheld, Mr. Romney said he plans to repeal it because “it’s a job killer” and “bad policy.” That is very strange for a man who, as governor, worked with liberal Sen. Ted Kennedy to push such a law through the Democratic Massachusetts Legislature.

Politicians are entitled to change positions, but Mr. Romney changes them like a chameleon changes colors.

Republicans were just as hypocritical as Mr. Romney. Years back, they offered mandatory health insurance as an alternative to HillaryCare. The idea was that participation by healthy individuals makes it possible to insure people with pre-existing conditions.

Suddenly Dream Work, an ultra-rightist organization heavily financed by the billionaire Koch brothers sent tea party goons to disrupt Democratic congressional and senatorial town hall meetings to spread lies that ObamaCare is “socialized medicine” and “a government takeover of health care.”

Ironically, the Heritage Foundation – which drafted the mandated health care approach in the ’90s – was founded and funded by one of the Koch brothers and their money still partially funds this think tank.

Ray A. Cohn

Las Vegas