I question that, but I guess I'm nobody.
Any other nobodies out there?
Never stopped the B******S BEFORE...
Who brought up this question... Michele Bachmann?? she’s the only Republican that DEFinitely NOT A RINO!.. one of the FEW!!
If the citizens of the USA roll over for this, we deserve our chains.
Leahy obviously never heard of this thing called a Constitution and doesn’t understand what its for.
Somebody better tell this asshat to pick up Liberty and Tyranny and READ IT.
The Supreme Court has already ruled on a mandate to buy “insurance” during the adoption of Social Security. The Justice Department had to present it to the court as a tax, same as the income tax, while FDR was out there selling it as an insurance program.
Even then, with FDR packing the court, they knew it would be an unconstitutional mandate.
meh
bttt
You also CAN buy gasoline without ethanol.Stations are not required to sell the 10% ethanol/gasoline mixture . The problem is trying to find stations that can get it from a distributor .
Many years ago I posted this on my FR profile page....
The only amendment required to return control of our government back to the people.
Amendment XXVIII (28th.)
The government of the people, and by the people, shall not write or allow any law, directive, or regulation that shall cause, or require , any citizen or entity to purchase or utilize the products, methods, or services of any entity or individual.
D.C.H 1998
“Sen. Leahy: Why would you say there is no authority? I mean, there’s no question there’s authority, nobody questions that.”
The arrogance is beyond words! Senator, I QUESTION THAT! That and many other anti-Constitutional actions taken by the Congress, the Judiciary, and the Executive staff over the past 60 years and more.
Like all the others, the Tenth Amendment has the force of law, and the Constitution is still the foundational law of this great republic. Awareness of that fact seem to be missing inside the beltway.
It’s time to take back the country.
In other words, "I don't know".
Nobody: Senator, when will Congress mandate a “public” option for automobile insurance? Home insurance? Mortgage insurance? Unemployment insurance? Liability insurance?
Senator: As soon as we shut you down.
re: compared the mandate to the government’s ability to set speed limits on interstate highways
Just because government has done it doesn’t mean they have the authority to do so. It’s a habit they fell into well over a hundred years ago. Do something, and if no one can find a way to stop you, then by default you claim to have Constitutional authority to do it.
And over the years they’ve tightened their grip on this folly by making the laws more and more confusing and by making the judicial system to difficult and expensive to use that it practically assures they can get away with their BS.
It’s a vicious cycle and until someone steps in and disrupts it there is no hope of it changing.
“Prior to 1995, the federal government mandated a speed limit of 55 miles an hour on all four-lane highways.”
That was a bad idea, too.
They wont directly mandate it. What they will do is call it a tax in the Internal Revenue Code. If you have Health Insurance, you will enter a code for the carrier and you will get a “credit” which will be offset by lower exemption rates. If you don’t have it, you wonty get the credit and still have the lower exemption rates. Manipulating the Tax code has been the weapon of circumventing the constitution for decades.
And that will matter to them how? Just another day at the office for this crowd.
Someone ought to pose this question to Mark Levin. Isn’t he a constitutional lawyer?
Bumping this so I can find it later. I need to send this article to some more of my friends.
What do these three things have in common?
1. Man-made Global Warning.
2. The constitutionality of mandatory health insurance.
3. Obama’s citizenship.
They are things that “nobody questions.” I wonder why.
http://leahy.senate.gov/contact.cfm
Where does Congress get the power to force people to buy health insurance?
signed, nobody.