Kenneth Blackwell and Kenneth Klukowski in the WSJ. Here’s an excerpt:
The Justice Department announced last week that it would defend the new federal health-insurance mandate as an exercise of Congress’s “power to lay and collect taxes,” even though Barack Obama had insisted before the bill’s passage that it was “absolutely not a tax increase.” The truth is the mandate is not a tax—and if it were it would be unconstitutional.
A tax is when the government takes money from individuals, puts it in the Treasury, and plans to spend it. With the health-insurance mandate, the government is not taking money from private individuals; rather, it is commanding them to give …
It’s registration-enabled, but a good read:
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Or, read Rob Natelson’s take on it – here, here and here.
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