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President Obama To Appear On Mythbusters
Muondecay writes "President Obama will be featured in the December 8th MythBusters episode, 'Archimedes Solar Ray,' during which he will challenge Adam and Jamie to revisit an ancient and somewhat controversial myth: Did Greek scientist and polymath Archimedes set fire to an invading Roman fleet using only mirrors and the reflected rays of the sun during the Siege of Syracuse? This is part of a White House effort to highlight the importance of science education."
Hypothesis: /. postings don't establish constitutionality or lack thereof, the courts do.
I'll leave the rest to the interested readers. :-)
Really, what is it with you stupid americans and your socialism paranoia? This goes way beyond sanity.
Now you may want the doctors to simply let people croak who can't pay their medical bills anymore. But there's this thing called the hippocratic oath. That's hippocratic after the old greek Hippocrates guy, not hypocritic, which americans have more experience with.
Oh, and the stupid "confiscation of property" argument has been tried before, to make all taxes illegal. Guess what, the courts disagree, the argument has been put down, you can beat a dead horse if you like, but you should stop trying to ride it.
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Well, that or the fact that Congress passed an *actual* Bill Of Attainder to defund ACORN?
Somehow, I think that he was less worked up about that, an actual clear-cut and dry Constitutional violation than the health care bill, so I respectfully doubt his Defender Of The Constitution credentials.
"Hypothesis: The Constitution gives Congress the power to impose mandatory health care insurance on every citizen."
Sigh.... congress did not impose mandatory health care insurance. They used their ability to tax (taxing to promote or demote a policy, as they do with many other things) people who do not have health care insurance. If you have health care insurance, you get a tax rebate equal to the tax increase.
People have described this as a fine for not having insurance. Which basically is true. But again, even if you consider it a fine, that doesn't mean health insurance is mandatory. Feel free to pay the fine every year if you really hate having insurance.
Tax incentives, tax rebates, etc.. are certainly not unconstitutional.