When the United States Supreme Court upheld ObamaCare’s individual mandate as lawful exercise of the Congress’ taxing power last summer, Chief Justice John Roberts’s opinion in effect said there is no limit to what Congress can do to regulate personal behavior as long as that regulation is fashioned as a tax. When the decision came down, AHEC was very critical of the decision even going so far as to call Robert’s decision a freedom tax (See here and here).
In case you hadn’t heard, last week Frances Conseil Constitutionnel, the French court that hears constitutional cases, struck down a series of tax hikes that France’s Socialist President Francois Hollande had campaigned on because those tax provisions were unconstitiutional. See here.
Apparently, while Chief Justice Roberts is for unlimited exercise of of taxing power here in the U.S., there are more conservative and principally minded judges in Socialist France. This has to make one wonder if France has greater protections of taxpayers than America.
AHEC | American Healthcare Education Coalition 