Years from now, here is the proposition for which law students will study this week’s Supreme Court ObamaCare decision: Federal power is not unlimited under the commerce clause after all.
Granted, the United States Supreme Court engaged in a contortion worthy of Cirque de Soleil in upholding ObamaCare’s individual mandate as a “tax,” despite the fact that Obama himself denied it was a tax and Congress did not offer it as such.
In a September 20, 2009 interview with ABC News’s George Stephanopoulos, Barack Obama stubbornly and unequivocally denied that ObamaCare’s individual mandate was a “tax”:
George Stephanopoulos: That may be, but it’s still a tax increase.
Barack Obama: No. That’s not true, George. The – for us to say that you’ve got to take a responsibility to get health insurance is absolutely not a tax increase. Cont. Reading
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