Healthshare Challenges

Fourteen states are currently mounting challenges to the constitutionality of this Healthcare monstrosity. Millions of Americans are loudly and even violently speaking out against this joke of a law. Businesses are coming out of the woodwork with estimates of O'care costing them up to a billion dollars, in AT&T's case, 970M for Verizon, and this in a recession with unemployment around 10%. Increasing the budget of the IRS by 10 Billion, as this bill does, is branded as a cost saver to the American people. Increasing the funding, with tax dollars, of the agency that collects taxes, can result in nothing more than higher taxes. Even if this new IRS funding somehow made the tax code more fair/efficient, and resulted in slightly higher government income, they would barely break even, much less provide "affordable" healthcare, via the US taxpayer, for 16 million1 US citizens2 through the act.


The question is this; has there ever been a bill passed by congress that was nearly this costly to the American workforce? Secondly, other than the much lamented stimulus3 has congress ever voted on something that is this detailed and mostly unknown (2000 + pages with the most recent changes made the day before the vote)? Lastly, just how close to the tyranny our forefathers fought against are we?

" ...governments are established among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed..."

- Declaration of Independence (emphasis mine)

1 No one can come up with a consistent number 16mil (adults 18+) is just the most recent I have heard

2 Correct me if I'm wrong, but illegal aliens are covered in the final bill

3 Total cost of bill 787B / total taxpayers est. 110M = 7,155$ per taxpaying citizen for ONE piece of legislation (sidenote 115,940$ total US debt per taxpayer as of right now.)