tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8959556.post8913816361638103891..comments2024-02-21T17:30:40.448-05:00Comments on An Objectivist Individualist: Justice Department Claims Taxing Power is Constitutionally Unlimited in Defense of ObamaCareCharles R. Anderson, Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/09610765984333672076noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8959556.post-14267842080372125512010-08-05T21:04:41.006-05:002010-08-05T21:04:41.006-05:00You are right to add the further limitations you h...You are right to add the further limitations you have mentioned, but they have long been largely ignored. Not surprisingly, the government simply ignores those provisions of the Constitution which inconveniently limit its powers as much as they can get away with it. Over the years, they have pushed back the limits steadily and unrelentingly, but with a massive long-term effect. The Teddy Roosevelt statement that he will do what he wants to do unless it is prohibited by the Constitution became the Progressives' critical inversion of its limits on governmental power. It was no longer enough that Congress had no powers but those listed. Now it had to be told explicitly that it has no power to regulate and control health and medical services and anything else it got the bee in its bonnet to meddle with in our lives. Then many an explicit provision came to be ignored, such as the 2nd Amendment, the 9th Amendment, the 10th Amendment, and the privileges or immunities clause of Section 1 of the 14th Amendment.<br /><br />Only when the vast majority of the American People become familiar with their Constitution once again, will we be likely to have Senators and Representatives who understand it and care to abide by it.Charles R. Anderson, Ph.D.https://www.blogger.com/profile/09610765984333672076noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8959556.post-49562354883944346822010-08-05T07:32:03.715-05:002010-08-05T07:32:03.715-05:00What the hell is our servants and trustees talking...What the hell is our servants and trustees talking about here? There is a constitutional limit on taxation. Article I, Section 2, Clause 3; Section 8, Clause 1; and Section 9, Clause 4, these provisions have never been altered, amended, or repealed since 1787. All indirect taxes (“duties, imposts, excises”) are subject to the rule of uniformity, and all direct taxes are subject to the rule of apportionment. Direct taxes must be apportioned, and billed to the States. All taxes and duties have proper subjects and objects. That is, taxes are to be imposed only within the limits of properly delegated authority, only upon proper subjects and only to the extent of constitutionally limited objectives. These servants and trustees need English 101, Constitution 101, and Theory of our Founding Fathers 101.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com