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RUSH: I checked the e-mail during the break, and people asked me, “Do you really mean it, when you say, our freedom of choice<\/a> just met its death panel?” Yes, I do. Our last caller, who mentioned the precedent set by this, had it right. Even if this is repealed, if any tax increase that\u2019s happened in the past is repealed, the precedent has still been set now. The court got out of the way. There are no limits, folks, on what can be taxed, because this essentially is the federal government being granted the permission to tax behavior. This is the federal government being permitted to tax choices that you make, if you don\u2019t make the right one. So essentially your choice now costs you. In the case of health care, you must buy it now. <\/p>\n

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The Supreme Court said that the Congress did not have the power to mandate that you buy health insurance. The Commerce Clause did not permit that. But, that doesn\u2019t matter, because the Congress can tax you. They can make you buy anything now and call it a tax. If they want to make you buy broccoli, if you don\u2019t, you will pay a penalty. If somebody passes a law, somebody signs it into law that everybody has to eat broccoli, you might think that that\u2019s an extreme example, and it\u2019s only extreme in the sense you don\u2019t think anybody would ever mandate something like that, but we\u2019re here. <\/p>\n

So now behavior is taxed. There\u2019s no limits, even if Obamacare is repealed as a result of the election in November. <\/a> And don\u2019t forget, the Tea Party came into existence because health care was passed. It was the passage of Obamacare that led to the Tea Party evolving from the grassroots, effervescing from nowhere. Everyday ordinary American citizens fed up already with all of Obama\u2019s spending, all of his other tax increases. Then health care came along, and it was passed in a very unorthodox way that went against the grain of most people\u2019s sense of how things get done in this country. And then after it was passed the Democrats spiked the football and walked all through the Capitol with that giant gavel. Then they made up lies about being spat upon and having racial epithets shouted at them.<\/p>\n

And so the Tea Party was born, and it led to all of those town hall meetings and it led to all the union violence at some of these town hall meetings. And the question now is just to what extent will history repeat itself, in terms of the Tea Party expanding. It never did go away. The Tea Party never went away. The left hopes that it did. The left tried to tell themselves that it went away, but it didn\u2019t. It just transformed. It started as a protest movement and now is eventually a grassroots movement designed to find nominees and then get them elected. And it\u2019s having pretty decent success. But now it\u2019s gonna reenergize even more. And November 2012 stands to be an even bigger repeat than what November 2010, the midterm elections, were. <\/p>\n

I would not want to be a Democrat. They may be temporarily happy. They may be spiking the football and so forth, but you\u2019re going to see more of them declining to go to the Democrat convention. You\u2019re gonna see more of them declining to be campaigning side-by-side with Barack Obama. This is just gonna make the Tea Party boil. Look, I\u2019m in the tea business now, I\u2019m a tea expert<\/a>, and I happen to know what happens when you boil tea. It gets stronger. That\u2019s how you make it stronger. You boil it. You steep it. You leave it in the hot water. And it gets stronger. And that\u2019s exactly what is going to happen now. It\u2019s happening even now, as we speak. But despite all that, the caller had it exactly right, the precedent has been set, that there is no limit on what the government can tax. <\/p>\n

In fact, the court went looking, the court went mining for a way to make this possible. The notion of a limitless expansion of the power of the federal government was affirmed today by the Supreme Court of the United States. And that\u2019s why there\u2019s so much spiking the football on the left. And that\u2019s why there is such happiness, because they know what this decision ultimately means. When the federal government has the power to tax behavior, there is no end to what can be taxed. And that\u2019s what Obamacare was always about from the get-go. Obamacare is not about health care for the uninsured. It\u2019s not about improving health care. It\u2019s not about insurance. It\u2019s about the limitless expansion on the federal government and the federal government\u2019s ability to exert behavioral control over the American people. And the reason they sought health care as the vehicle for that is that you can virtually tie any expense, any behavior to health care expense. <\/line><\/p>\n

You can tax the way people eat. You can tax whether or not they exercise, whatever old wives\u2019 tale you believe about health. And I just ask you to consider all the things you heard the last 30 years, things that you should eat, shouldn\u2019t eat, to prolong the length of your life or that will curtail the length of your life. Imagine the federal government having the power to tax all of those things. Just use the oat bran example. Twenty years ago, oat bran was the single healthiest thing you could eat. Imagine the federal government, some wacko liberal at the FDA or at Health and Human Services, then deciding because some research survey has just said oat bran will make everybody live ten years longer mandating that everybody go eat it, and you don\u2019t.<\/p>\n

Why do you think there are thousands of new IRS agents? Why do you think that\u2019s part of this bill? That\u2019s a pure police force enforcement mechanism. But that\u2019s what health care has always been. Obamacare has always been a stealth way for behavioral control over the American people. Sixteen thousand new IRS agents. During the 2010 campaign, during those midterms, the Democrat National Committee told all of its candidates to avoid mentioning Obamacare. Don\u2019t talk about it. It was such a negative. They can\u2019t avoid talking about it now. And they\u2019re going to be forced to lie about it. And they\u2019re gonna be forced to blatantly lie about it. And they\u2019re gonna be forced to lie about it in ways in which the American people, the majority of, know they\u2019re being lied to. <\/p>\n

They know that their premiums are not going down. The American people know that they\u2019re not gonna be able to keep their doctor. The American people know that they\u2019re not gonna be able to keep their current plan. The reason is that Obamacare specifically ultimately destroys the private sector insurance market. It will eventually shuffle everybody off to these state exchanges run by the federal government. And it won\u2019t be long before the only place any of us can go for health insurance will be a government office.<\/p>\n

Whether you like your doctor won\u2019t matter. Whether you have your plan now won\u2019t matter. Your business… If you get your plan through your employer, it is not gonna be provided by them for long if this isn\u2019t repealed. It\u2019s not gonna be long before your employer takes advantage of the opportunity to pay the fine rather than the premium, \u2019cause that didn\u2019t change. The fine for the first two to three years — the tax for not buying it — is much cheaper than the policy. By design, employers will off-load the responsibility of health insurance to the state exchanges.<\/p>\n

That was always in the cards.<\/p>\n

That was always in the plan.<\/p>\n

<\/a>Obama told his union buddies back in 2007 (summarizing), “I know we\u2019d like to get to single payer as quickly as we can, but it\u2019s gonna take ten years.” We\u2019ve played that bite. “It\u2019s going to take ten years to get there because we\u2019re gonna have to do it piecemeal and incrementally, otherwise there\u2019d be a revolt.” Do you realize, folks, according to this precedent that\u2019s set by the court today you could say that a carbon tax is now constitutional? You could say that, because this is a massive precedent. You could say that a tax on having more than one child would now be constitutional.<\/p>\n

I think the court has said there\u2019s no limit to what the government can tax. Don\u2019t be buffaloed and fooled into thinking this tax increase was tied exclusively to health insurance or health-related matters. All that really has happened here is that the court told the government it can\u2019t make people buy things under the Commerce Clause, but it can with the tax code. That\u2019s as simple as I can make it.<\/p>\n

They can\u2019t use the Commerce Clause to make you buy health insurance or whatever else they want to make you buy now. But they can levy a tax on you for not buying it. So, what do you do? If you don\u2019t buy what is commanded to be bought, if you don\u2019t do what is commanded to be done — and if a fine or a penalty or a tax has been set up — these 16,000 IRS agents eventually will find you. That\u2019s essentially what\u2019s happened. That is the massive precedent the previous caller was talking about. That\u2019s what has been established here. This must be what Obama has meant all along when he\u2019s talked about “tax reform.” That\u2019s the simplest way I can think of to have people understand this.<\/p>\n

The court says, “You can\u2019t use the Commerce Clause to make people buy health insurance, but you can tax people who don\u2019t.” Well, why stop at health insurance? If you are people that believe in massive federal power and love the exercise of massive federal power — and when it\u2019s all done under the guise of social justice and fairness — why not? It\u2019s all done under the guise that the rich have everything they want because they\u2019ve been able to steal it from the poor, and now we\u2019re gonna make \u2019em give it back!<\/p>\n

“Is my health care free now, Mr. Limbaugh? Is my health care free?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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