What they're trying to establish is the power to control compensation levels, period. In fact, more and more Democrats are making the insane argument that doing this, and much, much more, is within Congress's purportedly limitless constitutional power to "promote the general welfare." This is really scary stuff, and I'm afraid I don't see a silver lining.Good fucking god this man is right. There was no upside to Social Security at all.
I'm gonna plagiarize Mark Levin here. Mark has been recounting how, when FDR foisted social security on the country, his administration told the public it was an insurance program.
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No upside?! Imagine trying to run databases on everyone without a SSN!
pay the money? call the shots!
In that case, I'll have a Danska OP Vodka.
This is really scary stuff, and I'm afraid I don't see a silver lining.
Anyone past puberty who uses the word "scary" has instantly trivialized any argument made.
And make mine an impor.
"Foisting:" Better or worse than "shoving down the throat?"
Mark has been recounting how, when FDR foisted social security on the country, his administration told the public it was an insurance program.
And millions of seniors, outraged at the deception, have refused to cash the checks. They have moved to Galt Gulch, mostly because they heard that their all-you-can-eat buffet is much better than the Ponderosa.
I used to be a Democrat, but thanks to Obama's election, I'm outraged by FDR's Solicitor General's argument before the Supreme Court that social security is a tax.
Helvering v Davis is amusing because it shows that even back in 1937, wingnuts were ever so eloquent. This is what appears at the bottom of a multi-page Supreme Court decision:
MR. JUSTICE McREYNOLDS and MR. JUSTICE BUTLER are of opinion that the provisions of the act here challenged are repugnant to the Tenth Amendment, and that the decree of the Circuit Court of Appeals should be affirmed.
I suspect McREYNOLDS and BUTLER were teabagging when they wrote that.
One of the only things I remember from Federal Income Tax Law is "never quote the Helvering case."
That, I think, is what's going on with the pay czar . . . and health-care "reform" . . . and auto-company takeovers . . . and government taking equity positions in banks . . . and . . . and . . . and . . .
The larger part of what is going on was that the country started slipping down the toilet hole. Also.
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