Op-ed: 

ObamaCare...a rip roaring tax increase on the middle class

By: Diane Sori

America as we know her died today, 06-28-12, as Chief Justice John Roberts sells out to the left.  Of all the justices to do so, this caught us all totally by surprise.

The individual mandate, the heart of the bill, was ruled unconstitutional under the Commerce Clause or Necessary and Proper Clause but was allowed to survive under the power to tax clause.  Yet another tax where the burden will fall on working Americans and Roberts could have stopped this but he didn’t.

Because of him, ObamaCare now becomes the largest tax increase in our nation’s history.  It also means that while you don’t legally have to buy health insurance, if you don’t, the IRS can come after you for not paying a portion of your taxes.

We’re screwed either way...our taxes go up if we buy health insurance and if we don’t we’re guilty of not paying our taxes.

Thanks, Roberts.  And thanks, Barack HUSSEIN Obama, for lying to us yet again with your claim from day one that this was NOT a tax.  Guess what...IT IS!!!

There is however, another way to look at this ruling, and that is that this is actually a good thing for Mitt Romney as public sentiment against a tax increase of any kind (and this is one hell of a major tax increase) will propel people, very angry people, to the polls in November...as it very well might do once the dust settles.

Romney just made a statement saying that he disagrees with the decision and agrees with our dissent and will act to repeal ObamaCare on his first day in office.  He said he knows that while ObamaCare apparently does not violate the Constitution he knows that does not make it good policy or law.  

And here are some numbers he stated that will shock you.  This ruling has now added a 500 billion dollar tax burden on ‘We the People’ which will be handed down to future generations.  This ruling adds trillions to our deficit and national l debt.  This ruling will cause 20 million Americans to lose insurance that they currently have and are happy with. 

Oh what a happy day...NOT!

As Romney stated, this ruling now puts the government between you and your doctor.  And he is right as the government will now be able to decide who gets what treatment and who is worthy of treatment and who is not.

Besides screwing ‘We the People’ this ruling had immediate economic repercussions.  As soon as the ruling was handed down, stocks started dropping.  The Dow Jones industrial average, which was down about 100 points before the court ruled, fell further and was down 160 points within just a few minutes of the ruling came down, and Health care stocks were down even more as doctors and the medical industry got screwed as bad as the rest of us did.

As politicians start chiming in let’s remember what House Speaker John Boehner said on Wednesday...if the law remains intact, the House will work to repeal the entire law.

“We’ve made it pretty clear and I’ll make it clear one more time: If the court does not strike down the entire law, the House will move to repeal what’s left of it,” Boehner said.

‘We the People’ must hold him to those words even as he just announced that the House will start proceedings on this in July.

Senator Marco Rubio, hopefully Romney’s VP pick, said the Supreme Court's decision on ObamaCare just means the law is constitutional, not that it is a good idea.

“What’s important to remember is that what the Court rules on is whether something is constitutional or not, not whether it’s a good idea,” Rubio said. “And while the Court has said that the law is constitutional, it remains a bad idea for our economy, and I hope that in the fall we will have a majority here that will not just repeal this law, but replace it with real solutions that will insure more people and cost a lot less money.”

Not a good idea is putting it mildly. 

Now as the dust starts to settle and we wait to see what Congress and the individual states do (remember there are still lawsuits pending on a state level against this), I’ll tell you this, if this abomination of a ruling doesn’t unite us together as a cohesive voting force I don’t know what will.