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We haven’t dipped into this crazy bin in a while, but Ms. Teabagger Untethered Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) is obviously calling for “civil disobedience” in order to clean up the environment of wingnuts through fines and jail time. I’m on board with that one, Michelle!
The Tea Party hero is telling people not to pay taxes if ObamaCare passes. Is Bachmann fighting the good fight – or losing her grip on reality?
This isn’t the first time “Mama Che” Bachmann’s tried to “incite Americans to revolution,” armed or otherwise, says Rick Ungar in True/Slant. If she wants to flout the soon-to-be-passed health care law, and her oath to uphold it, fine. But taxpayers shouldn’t foot her salary, and generous health benefits, while she becomes “an enemy of the U.S. government.”
What else fits her “civil disobedience” criteria? It is “dangerous” for Bachmann to call on Americans to “break the law,” just because she doesn’t like how a bill was passed, says Tom L. Williams in Liberaland. It opens the door for us to similarly protest other “illegitimate” bills rammed through Congress this way – like Bush’s tax cuts.
I want Bachmann to follow through: Bachmann’s “freakout” is great news for liberals, says Jonathan Chait at The New Republic. It means she and her team realize they didn’t, in fact, kill the bill. In fact, “it’s going to be fun” watching her “civil disobedience campaign” take shape.
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The Enemy Within..
It seems that Ms Donnelly is violating the sections of the Constitution involving powers reserved to Congress, the right of the Government to raise revenue, and the obligation of the Congress to enact and to enforce laws, themselves or through agencies or the executive branch.
Inciting violations of the Internal Revenue act(and supplementary amendments( would be a breach of the oath, a violation of Federal law as far as inciting felonious behaviour, and an impeachable offence.
Of course, she could always defend herself using an insanity defence; most people would buy that coming from her…
She’s not encouraging civil disobedience, though.Yes, civil disobedience involved refusal to pay taxes (specifically as a way of opposing war). But what separates civil disobedience from just enjoying the benefits of the state without contributing is that civil disobedience is done expecting an accepting arrest, imprisonment, etc. Michele Bachmann Turner Overdrive just wants to be a part of the U.S. without contributing — and she’s encouraging the Teabaggers to demand that status collectively. It’s about insisting that reactionary white Protestant cis-gendered heterosexuals be supported by everyone else without any reciprocal responsibility.
At the end of WWIIThePoles solved the problem of Poemeranian Germans(East Prussia) being part of Germany by forcibly removing them to Germany, the Czechs did the same with the Sudeten Germans.
Can’t we spin off a couple of states as Jesusland and deport the baggers as “illegal aliens?”
Can I Withhold My Taxes ……that go to pay her salary?
Jeez, is she awaste of taxpayer money!
I assumethat she figures that under a Democrat-controlled administration, there will be little or no repercussions, or that liberals are too wimpy to respond, or that it doesn’t matter what Republicans do because God is on their side, but that as soon as the Republicans get back into power, not paying your taxes because of some Republican-passed program will constitute treason and deserve to be dealt with using the full power of the state.
Dear Teabaggers,Personal income taxes are unconstitutional. And they’re pure voluntary. No really, just Google it.
Please show your dedication to the cause and quit paying taxes now.
Oh, and when you see him in the prison cafeteria, please tell Kent Hovind, aka Dr. Dino, I said, “Nyeh nyeh nyeh nyeh nyeh!”.
Ironically…Isn’t she already enjoying the equivalent of Obamacare, as it were, being a Congressperson and all?
I think what really worries her and her ilk will be the loss of lobbyist monies. As a consolation, though, at least she won’t have to pay taxes on that if healthcare passes.
Crazy eyesWhen you look at her eyes, you can just see the crazy. Really, there’s something about them.
But don’t stare too long, you might turn to stone or be hypnotized.
Gotta lovethese “representatives” that rail about health care all the while they receive some pretty awesome health care benefits via tax payers.
World Nut Daily and Dick Army are in back of thisI was so surprised in 2004 when WND interviewed me about our tax protest of a different sort.
I started receiving unsolicited teabagger newsletters in my email when they were just forming in 2008. They actually thought I was one of them? No friend of mine. I pay my taxes now.
I know that I’ll be refusing to pay the punative tax/fine for not getting insurance.Just flat out, I’ll not be doing it. I’ll welcome the police and arrest and taking that much more out of the government for my upkeep than if they’d just left me alone to complete my education degree and go into teaching in the public education system, where the union will force me to have insurance against my will anyway. The ironies are not lost on me, but I will always vote and fight to not pay for that which I do not want and cannot use (anyone want to take bets on whether the mandatorily crappy federal insurance scheme will cover SRS? How about the teacher’s union plan? Thought so.)
So, bring it, Obama. I welcome the lunacy that is arresting a person for refusing to buy insurance and putting them in prison where you have to provide it for free.
Meh. Frankly, I don’t think they have the votes, even for their unconstitutional deem & pass idiocy.
I think you got it……That’s just what I was thinking when I read this. And they might just be right about the Democrats’ being too wimpy to respond.
You know, these people define the state, just as they define God, narcissistically.
God is nothing but the person they see in the mirror. The state is—or rather, ought to be—nothing but the person they see in the mirror.
In the school district where I taughtyou could opt out of the health insurance. That may have only been if you had coverage elsewhere. I’m not absolutely certain. But I know I had the option of several plans, or cash instead. The amount of cash was really low, like $400. This was about a decade ago. I have no idea how common that was then or is now.
I hope you never have an illness or accident which would necessitate your needing expensive health care. I too would be angry if I had a surgery I needed (like SRS) that was considered not necessary so I can understand your not wanting to pay into a system that isn’t going to meet your needs, but you might have other needs some day too.
Cost benefit analysisWhich commensurately reduces the value of health insurance to me, which commensurately reduces the amount of money I’m willing to spend for coverage to below market rates, which insures (hehe) that I’ll never be voluntarily entering the health insurance market. The Left’s solution: Don’t actually do anything to increase competition, and then drive prices down to the point I might actually be able to enter the market voluntarily. No, no, no. The Left’s solution: Individual mandates. Nice. I think I’d rather be in prison.
Respectfully Cathy…
What you are saying is that in the event of a catastrophic accident or illness, you are perfectly happy making your neighbors pay your bills?
Tsk Tsk…tha’s not very conservative.
We Ain’t Seen Nothing YetMichelle BTO is a pioneer in taking us back to the future. Thanks to her, teabaggers, rightwingers, and their stooges –like the Virginia AG who plans to sue the federal government if health care reform passes (!)–the U.S. has been brought back to the 1830s. We are quite insanely arguing about states’ rights and nullification as if the whole question hadn’t already been decided already. It’s going to get worse and worse until there’s open violence.
Actually…I’ve made my wishes known plain and clear to my next of kin.
If I were to be felled by an accident or illness from which I could recover 100% almost immediately, but that recovery would bankrupt us all for the remainder of our lives (taking personal responsibility WTF), then I would rather die, that my NoK could continue to live outside of poverty, and that I would not be forced to live in pain an invalid, and to that end, I would off myself if possible, or sign a DNR order and have my feeding tube removed.
While I do not have a “Living Will” to that effect, I’ve discussed it numerous times at length so that my NoK are under no illusions as to whether or not they even have permission to keep me on life-support at their own or anyone else’s expense.
THAT is standing up for your principles. BTW, love the .sig. I’m an Atheist myself, so I have no fear of any mythical, wrathful gawd awaiting me in the afterlife to punish me there for the notional sin of suicide.
I’m dyslexic. Sue me.WTF was supposed to be FTW.
As opposed to the Left…Who want to pretend the ratification of the Constitution never happened and that the text of the Constitution is meaningless. Obama doesn’t “spend a lot of time worrying about what the procedural rules are…” So what Art. 1, Sec. 7 is black-letter Constitutional edict? We don’t need no steenkink votes on health care. We’ll just do it.
Nothing breeds lawlessness like lawmakers with contempt for the law.