This mandate to buy is the worst attack on personal freedom since slavery.
Forget all the other words being used. It says the government can “order” you around instead of just manipulate you around. They tax whiskey, and it affects your buying. They tax your income and then go buy things with the money you wouldn’t otherwise have bought.
With this, though, they issue and order and tell you to go down to the neighborhood store and buy 6 of these and 5 of those.
It opens the door for the government to issue individual, particularized orders.
Disneyworld is going under...you are ordered to attend disney this year.
GMC is hurting...you are ordered to buy a Volt.