Rep. Allen West: "A Sad Day In America"
The conservative Republican Congressman has issued a statement about today's U.S. Supreme Court ruling: "The United States Supreme Court has ruled to uphold the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act by extending the power of the United States Congress to tax Americans' behavior. This is a sad day for Americans, as they will be taxed to pay for benefits they may not need or want as part of the insurance they are forced to buy. With this decision, Congress has been granted infinite taxation power, and there are no longer any limits on what the federal government can tax its citizens to do."
Rep. West's statement continues: "The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will hit the middle class especially hard, as hundreds of thousands of jobs will be lost as businesses try to avoid the penalties and costs created by the healthcare law. The healthcare law will cost trillions of dollars, raise costs for employers and create huge incentives for them to drop health insurance."
More from Rep. West's statement: "Benjamin Franklin did indeed state, 'In this world, nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.' However, Dr. Franklin never envisioned the federal government would use its power of taxation to punish people for not purchasing health care. Today, individual sovereignty in America has been defeated.'"
Bookeristas On Twitter: "Freedom Takes A Hit"
Jerome Hudson, a conservative, tweets: "When a government becomes this powerful, enough to force you to purchase a product, history proves that always ends in mass graves."
Sonnie Johnson, a conservative Republican, tweets: "We just handed our country over...They can tax us on everything and not even #SCOTUS [Supreme Court of the United States] will stand for our Constitution." She adds: "The Federal Gov't, ALL 3 BRANCHES, just put us in our place. This is not the home of the FREE, we are the home of GOV'T CONTROL."More: "We revere our Founders for their courage and strength, we must now be the generation that matches their urge for #FREEDOM."
Supremes Uphold Obamacare...As A Tax: Bookerista Reaction
