Obama solicitor general: If you don't like mandate, earn less money

Washington Examiner ^ | 06/02/11 | Philip Klein

[Talisker]

“During the Sixth Circuit arguments, Judge Jeffrey Sutton, who was nominated by President George W. Bush, asked Kaytal if he could name one Supreme Court case which considered the same question as the one posed by the mandate, in which Congress used the Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution as a tool to compel action.”

Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/historics/USSC_CR_0295_0495_ZO.html

I believe that in Schechter, the Commerce Clause was DENIED the power to compel action from a business. So I don't see the reason you're invoking it here - Schechter could actually be used AGAINST the individual mandate. In fact, Schechter was one of the limits the Roosevelt Administration finally reached in it's efforts to centralize commerce under federal law.

[Paladin2]

"I *NEED* a fleet of interstellar starships....."

Kool! I need that too!

[DaveTesla]

“Schechter could actually be used AGAINST the individual mandate”

That's why I posted it.
It should be.
The individual mandate violates the Tenth Amendment just as the Roosevelt Administration tried to do in Schechter.
The mandates are placed on small / medium sized businesses who operate solely intrastate.

[Gritty]

Hey, you! Yes, you,... Peasant!!

You don't like how we're destroying the Constitution?

Simple solution. Just use less of it, you swine...!

[stevie_d_64]

Because the people that follow this person are too stupid to understand anything beyond the government checks coming in their mailbox each month...

Conservatives just cain’t get enough of our people to get pizzed off enough to make a “real” difference in our elected bodies...2010 was an interesting start, but not enough...And we still have too many moderates in the ranks to be effective anyway...More work is needed...

We ain’t done yet...

[gogogodzilla]

Well, I’m kicking him out of Uranus...

:-P

[stevie_d_64]

Wait...Hang on...Now “who’s” anus are we talking about here???

I’m confused, but then again, I’ve had a couple of cold beers this early afernoon, and I don’t want to lose the buzz at this particular juncture...;-)