The Final Verdict

Yesterday’s Supreme Court decision, by stripping away a thick layer of constitutional protections, has marked the first shots fired in what is now the most important election in a generation. Permitting President Obama and his recently defeated Congress’ healthcare monstrosity to stand sets a dangerous precedent expanding government and contracting freedom. Mandating our citizen’s to buy a product—simply to exist—enforced by heavy penalties, fundamentally jeopardizes our individual liberties.

The American people agree that our healthcare system needed reform. However, from the very beginning, the Obamacare debate was never about healthcare it was about control.

There are two ways to compel individuals to act: incentivize and penalize. If the president and those 217 democrats in congress really wanted to fix the healthcare crisis they would have worked with republicans to build a plan that provides incentives to job creators to expand coverage to their employees. Most people would agree to a plan that protects individuals with pre-existing conditions and allows young people in these tough economic times to stay on their parents’ plans longer. But they would also like to see a plan that increases competitiveness between insurance providers by allowing Americans to purchase across state lines and protects doctors from frivolous lawsuits by addressing tort-reform. It’s really quite simple: you don’t solve the housing crisis by mandating that everyone buy a home, you create an environment that maximizes opportunity for all. 

The Supreme Court upheld the individual mandate penalties in Obamacare under the guise that the Congress has the power to tax. Well then America, we are about to see the largest tax increase in history. But fret not, as the Congress also has the power to repeal taxes.

The importance of this election and making Barack Obama a one-term president can be nicely summed up by President Ronald Reagan in his 1964 speech to the Republican National Convention:

“This idea, that government was beholden to the people, that it had no other source of power is still the newest, most unique idea in all the long history of man's relation to man. This is the issue of this election: Whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American Revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far-distant capital can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them ourselves.

“You and I are told we must choose between a left or right, but I suggest there is no such thing as a left or right. There is only an up or down. Up to man's age-old dream-the maximum of individual freedom consistent with order or down to the ant heap of totalitarianism. Regardless of their sincerity, their humanitarian motives, those who would sacrifice freedom for security have embarked on this downward path. Plutarch warned, "The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits."

"The Founding Fathers knew a government can't control the economy without controlling people. And they knew when a government sets out to do that, it must use force and coercion to achieve its purpose. So we have come to a time for choosing.”

The verdict of Obamacare is now in your hands.