Candidate for the 5th Congressional District Justin Bernier speaks befor voting begins for the nomination for the 5th District at the state Republican convention at the Connecticut Convention Center in Hartford, Conn., on Friday, May 18, 2012. Jason Rearick/Staff
Some strong comments out of the campaign of 5th District GOP Congressional hopeful Justin Bernier on today’s Supreme Court ruling.
“While I haven’t had the opportunity to read the entire Supreme Court decision yet, I have some initial impressions.
The first is that, with the ruling focused on the ability of Congress to tax the American people, this decision essentially makes a liar out of President Obama, who promised to never increase taxes on the middle class.
Secondly, it seems to me that the issue has been returned to the legislative branch. The next Congress will have the opportunity to repeal this burden on the American people and that’s the first thing I will be fighting for as Representative to the people in the 5th District.”
more republican B*S , control is what they want so they can put thier foot on the poor and keep them there!
Another teaparty phoney. He wants to cut governemnt spending on education, the poor and the environment..yet he has NEVER had job in the private sector..interesting seeing as he is against the Presidnent’s health care law yet he has had his own healthcare paid for by the taxpayers of this state for his entire career
This Berner idiot must be able to afford health insurance. He looks like another GOP psycho.
It was only sneaky if you weren’t paying attention, like the poster before who shows,there are so many issues that Congress wont address or wont change that are choking the life out of middle Americans, most make this 1% penalty look like a stimulus package.
How sneaky – this massive tax would never have passed Congress if it were labeled as such, and then Obama’s lawyers run into court and argue it is just that, in order to justify their shenanigans. Bernier is right, Obama & co need to go!
The next Congress will also have the opportunity to repeal a far larger burden on the American People, but I doubt that they will, as both Dems and Repubs are joined branches of the US Corporate Imperial War Party that uses US troops as enforcement thugs for US business and banking interests abroad:
http://www.warresisters.org/content/how-pie-chart-figures-were-determined-fy2013
Libya was a banker’s and oil profiteer’s war. Qaddafi’s gold-backed Diner threatened the Western banking system:
http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article27554.html
Iraq was about oil, regional hegemony and Israel, as is current Zionist-backed undermining of Syria and Iran:
http://america-hijacked.com/2012/02/12/israel-lobby-pushes-for-us-action-against-the-syrian-government/
Afghanistan is about pipelines and 3 trillion dollars worth of buried minerals:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=19769
Lee Whitnum knows all of this, and she is the only candidate for Lieberman’s seat that will do anything to save billions of dollars that the rest of Congress continues to pour into blood spilled abroad.
Until American voters get educated enough about these issues to dump nearly all corrupted House and Senate members like this one, nothing will change while we argue over what little funds are left to take care of social programs and rotting infrastructure:
http://www.salon.com/topic/patty_murray/
By the way, Defense industry companies are poor job creators relative to industries where taxes taxes could be better spent:
https://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/12/13