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In reply to the discussion: Is the mandate a violation of the First Amendment? [View all]Uncle Joe
(58,355 posts)21. Did you miss the part about speech?
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
What kind of speech could they have been thinking of?
Logic should tell anyone considering the history that political and economic speech would have been at the top of the totem pole.
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No one forces anyone to buy a house, that is a choice, you don't get fined for not owning a house.
sabrina 1
Jun 2012
#8
I'm saying that there are people who cannot afford it. Even a small extra amount of money
sabrina 1
Jun 2012
#12
Only because this is something they have been trying to do for decades and they were not
sabrina 1
Jun 2012
#18
Those taxes go to the peoples' elected agents; that being the government to do as it wishes.
Uncle Joe
Jun 2012
#23
Considering that money is speech now, not something the FFs probably had in mind, but
sabrina 1
Jun 2012
#9
No because taxes go to your elected representatives; the government, supposedly you
Uncle Joe
Jun 2012
#24
But you don't send the check directly to the Government Contractors, it goes to the IRS
1-Old-Man
Jun 2012
#27
no, you pay the income tax or "penalty" or whatever you want to call it to the irs.
unblock
Jun 2012
#29
I wouldn't care if I didn't believe the ACA with the mandate to be a Trojan Horse.
Uncle Joe
Jun 2012
#34