Obama Signs a New Tax on the Middle Class into Law

It didn't take President Obama long to break his campaign promise to not raise taxes on people making less than $250,000 per year. The new health-insurance overhaul requires that every American purchase health-insurance. Those who can't afford it will be subsidized by the government. Those who can afford it must purchase it or pay a large fine. You don't think this qualifies as a tax? Well, consider this: The Act puts the Internal Revenue Service in charge of enforcing the requirement. The last time I checked the mission of the IRS was still to collect taxes.

Some might argue that it only becomes a tax when someone is fined for refusing to purchase health-insurance. They might argue that being forced to purchase the insurance doesn't make it a tax because they get something in return for the dollars spent. I beg to differ. Consider the purpose of the requirement being in the Act. It is to force healthy young people, who are not likely to need a lot of health-care services, to contribute to the pool so those people who are more likely to need the services won't have to pay as much for the services. That is, its purpose is to take money from one sector of the population and use it to provide services to another sector. That is a tax, pure and simple.

Since this is a tax and since the Bill originated in the Senate, the Act is unconstitutional. This is the case because all Bills that levy new taxes on the people must originate in the House of Representatives.

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