Obama: If you don't like ObamaCare mandate, EARN LESS MONEY!

There is one predictable result of liberal policies: poverty. As in the misery type of poverty. If you doubt that, Obama's mouthpiece in court will enlighten you. If you don't like being forced by the federal government to buy a private product that you may neither want nor need, Obama has a solution for you: become poor. I'm not kidding! From The Washington Examiner:

President Obama's solicitor general, defending the national health care law on Wednesday, told a federal appeals court that Americans who didn't like the individual mandate could always avoid it by choosing to earn less money.

In other words, go into poverty and the federal government will stop muscling you. You know, just like the framers of the US Constitution intended it to be.

Neal Kumar Katyal, the acting solicitor general, made the argument under questioning before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in Cincinnati, which was considering an appeal by the Thomas More Law Center. ... The three-judge panel, which was comprised of two Republican-appointed judges and a Democratic-appointed judge, expressed more skepticism about the government's defense of the health care law than the Fourth Circuit panel that heard the Virginia-based Obamacare challenge last month in Richmond. The Fourth Circuit panel was made up entirely of Democrats, and two of the judges were appointed by Obama himself.

During the Sixth Circuit arguments, Judge Jeffrey Sutton, who was nominated by President George W. Bush, asked Kaytal if he could name one Supreme Court case which considered the same question as the one posed by the mandate, in which Congress used the Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution as a tool to compel action.

In other words, to force you to buy something. If ObamaCare is ruled constitutional by judicial fiat, what's stopping the government from requiring everyone to buy tofu at least once a week and a GM Volt?

Kaytal conceded that the Supreme Court had “never been confronted directly” with the question, but cited the Heart of Atlanta Motel case as a relevant example. In that landmark 1964 civil rights case, the Court ruled that Congress could use its Commerce Clause power to bar discrimination by private businesses such as hotels and restaurants.

“They’re in the business,” Sutton pushed back. “They’re told if you’re going to be in the business, this is what you have to do. In response to that law, they could have said, ‘We now exit the business.’ Individuals don’t have that option.”

Kaytal responded by noting that the there's a provision in the health care law that allows people to avoid the mandate.

Again by being poor. That's like saying you don't have to pay any taxes if you don't make any money. Brilliant!