I think when people pay taxes they expect "certain things" in return.
taxes are to go to pay for the powers of congress, article 1 section 8.
none of congress powers, have anything to do with the personal life's of the people, that is a state power.
"The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government, are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite. The former [federal powers ]will be exercised principally on
external objects, as war, peace, negotiation, and foreign commerce; with which last the power of taxation will, for the most part, be connected. The
powers reserved to the several States will extend to all the objects which, in the ordinary course of affairs,
concern the lives, liberties, and properties of the people, and the internal order, improvement, and prosperity of the State"
The company doesn't own the insurance plans, either. Nor do they get to pick and choose what is covered in a group plan(s).
For instance, BCBS only offers three plans and the company accepts what is in those plans or they find another insurance company. Nor does the company give a fig whether the employee chooses Plan A or Plan C because it's the employees that are paying for their own insurance plans via a fee that comes out of their paychecks. If they chose Plan A more money is deducted from their paycheck than if they chose Plan C.
It's the insurance company that decides what is covered in Plan A, Plan B and Plan C...not the company.
Its the insurance company that the employees have to deal with when they make a claim...not the company.
It's the empolyees that decide which insurance plan they want.
It's the employees that pay the deductibles and co-payments, not the company.
Other than being a middleman, the company has no say in what the insurance company offers or what plans the employees can choose or what the employees can claim on their insurance.
but the company is contracting the plan, ...true, the company cannot dictate too the insurer, and demand a certain plan., .........they can negotiate a plan...
the point i have been trying to make is, people cannot demand things out of other people or business insisting it supply money or labor for material goods or services, and government has no authority to enforce any demand.
The commerce clause, the taxation clause, the general welfare clause and the supramacy clause say the government has the authority and there is plenty of precedence to back it up.
So where does the constitution say that the government doesnt have the authority?
commerce clause-- meant to be used on state governments not the people, to prevent states from creating legislation affecting commerce of others states, never meant to be used inside the states on the people.....the constitution does not limit people
tax clause --are meant to be used on powers which congress has in article 1 section 8, done of those powers gives congress authority over the lifes of the people.
supremacy clause, -- to be used, when their is a
conflict of law, between state powers and federal powers, ..with federal-being supreme.
i stated that the government does not have any authority to force a person or business [a] to give a person
a material good or service, because to do so would make party [a] in servitude to which is unconstitutional.
Section 1.
"Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.