Obamacare is a civil rights violation.
Obamacare orders everybody to get the federal minimum insurance plan. It is unisex, so men have to pay for neonatal coverage and women have to pay for prostate cancer coverage. (1/3rd of men get prostate cancer, so that's a fat charge). You then have to swear under penalty of perjury on your tax return, whether you have it or not. If you don't, you have a penalty set against you.
Illegal aliens are exempt but not US citizens. This is a violation of the 14th Amendment guarantee of equal protection.
You can claim a religious exemption, but only if your religion ALSO objects to all insurance AND Social Security payments. This is a violation of the 1st Amendment ban on government restriction of the free exercise of religion. The federal government is forbidden to create "qualifiers" for rating religions as "real" based on their reaction to government.
It punishes people administratively without hearing. This is a violation of the 4th Amendment guarantee of due process. (It is not assessing a tax based on income - it assigns a penalty for conduct totally unrelated to income - a punitive fine. Then it says poor people don't have to pay that fine at all.)
It requires people to testify about their own conduct, under oath, so they can be punished without trial based on their admission. This is a violation of the 5th Amendment guarantee against self-incrimination. It is not assessing a tax based on income. It is making inquiry about BEHAVIOR, and then assessing a FINE.
None of these objections has been heardby the Supreme court, because nobody has had to do the reporting before this year. You cannot get a preemptive Shh from the Supreme Court.
If Obamacare is upheld, then we can get rid of the whole Penal code and the federal court system. We'll just make the tax return 5000 pages long.
"Worksheet 420:
Have you, within the last 12 months, used cannibis? If yes, enter $10,000.00 on line 420.
Have you, within the last 12 months, given computer files to Wikileaks? If yes, enter $10,000.00 on line 421.
Have you, within the last 12 months, used a destructive device on federal property? If yes, enter $100,000 on line 422.
Have you, within the last 12 months, robbed a federally insured bank? If yes, enter $50,000 on line 423."
Imagine what we'd save on criminal trials! We just save the courts for people who refuse to fill out the blanks on their tax returns. That's felony tax evasion. And lying, that's felony perjury.
Everybody else would be ordered to testify to a federal officer whether they were guilty or not, and then he'd punish them right there based on their answers! So simple! Why didn't we think of it before! Hey, let's have the IRS dress like Judge Dredd.
Now lawfully and constitutionally, they could have just said, everybody has a Obamacare tax, and you can get an exemption if you want, by proving you already have insurance. But they didn't. They went out and violated the Bill of Rights and the 14th Amendment. If you can obey the Bill of Rights and get the job done, then, that's every reason not to allow you to violate the Bill of Rights to get the job done.
The core joke of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is that of course no civilization would develop personal computers with instant remote database recovery, and then waste this technology to find good drinks.
Steve Jobs has ruined this joke.
