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By What Authority
So, what exactly is the Constitutional authority being cited in the Health Care bill?
The “Interstate Commerce” clause?
Is that the same Interstate Commerce clause that was used in Wickard v Filburn?
The one that said it was illegal for a farmer to grow wheat to feed his own chickens, because it affected the price of wheat, which is traded across state lines?
Welcome to the return of the Company Store. Uncle Sam’s General Store, where it’s now illegal to not buy things!
Forget about Bastiat’s “Broken Window.” Do you really want to live in a country where the State can order you to buy windows, on the grounds that windows are sold across state lines and therefore under the jurisdiction of bureaucrats?!?
(oh, and we’re going to have to tax you on those windows you just bought…)
