- Jan 12, 2012
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Before the first IBTL is posted, let me remind you that Islam has three major components which are not readily divisible but are separate up to a certain extent in that it is a religion, a political/government system, and a social system. For my purposes, I am drawing on its political and governmental characteristics.
One of the elements which encouraged mass conversion is the Jizyah--a special tax on non-Moslems levied for not believing/converting. Depending on the leader in charge of a given area at a given time, it could be anything from a sustainable tax that served to raise revenue while simultaneously reminding the dhimmis who were required to pay of their station in society, or it could be so onerous as to drive them into starvation. Again, where the tax fell within those two extremes depended entirely on the good nature or lack thereof of the ruler.
Fast forward to the so-called Affordable Care Act. It would seem that Obama, Pelosi, and Reid stole a rather inventive (albeit oppressive) idea from Mohammed and repurposed it to drive people to convert to socialism in form of the tax included in the ACA as a penalty for not having health insurance or buying it from the .gov for a cost similar to the cost of the non-participant/unbeliever tax. Presumably, now that the Supreme Court has determined that the financial penalty for noncompliance is in fact a Constitutionally acceptable tax (in a similar way that it cleared the way for raiding the Social Security trust fund for general fund use by declaring that it was a tax and not a contractually-held investment [you will have to ask the lawyers, I am relying on what grandpa explained to me about events before my time but not appearing in history class]) we now have a punitive 'tax' which can be adjusted at the whim of Congress which will presumably serve as an effective vehicle to make converts to socialism at economic sword point.
One of the elements which encouraged mass conversion is the Jizyah--a special tax on non-Moslems levied for not believing/converting. Depending on the leader in charge of a given area at a given time, it could be anything from a sustainable tax that served to raise revenue while simultaneously reminding the dhimmis who were required to pay of their station in society, or it could be so onerous as to drive them into starvation. Again, where the tax fell within those two extremes depended entirely on the good nature or lack thereof of the ruler.
Fast forward to the so-called Affordable Care Act. It would seem that Obama, Pelosi, and Reid stole a rather inventive (albeit oppressive) idea from Mohammed and repurposed it to drive people to convert to socialism in form of the tax included in the ACA as a penalty for not having health insurance or buying it from the .gov for a cost similar to the cost of the non-participant/unbeliever tax. Presumably, now that the Supreme Court has determined that the financial penalty for noncompliance is in fact a Constitutionally acceptable tax (in a similar way that it cleared the way for raiding the Social Security trust fund for general fund use by declaring that it was a tax and not a contractually-held investment [you will have to ask the lawyers, I am relying on what grandpa explained to me about events before my time but not appearing in history class]) we now have a punitive 'tax' which can be adjusted at the whim of Congress which will presumably serve as an effective vehicle to make converts to socialism at economic sword point.
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