[gusopol3]

This blog does a nice job of refuting:

http://fosterfriess.com/campfire-blog/2012/04/14/founding-fathers-did-not-back-health-insurance-mandates/

[muawiyah]

Note, that use of the taxing power to regulate is OLD OLD OLD. That's how they used to regulate Marijuana. The idea there was if they placed a tax on MJ, no one would pay it so they could be arrested and jailed.

The Democrats have kind of gotten this all backwards ~ using IRS to punish people who don't pay their monthly medical insurance premiums for example ~ ......................

Could it be they've been dipping in the "now empty bag of mairjuana".

[Kaslin]

See, I told you that idiot author pulled it out of his derriere

[Steelfish]

Thanks that was a good refutation.

[max americana]

LOL as I have thought. I pretty much read everything about pre-American Revolution life in the colonies and I have never heard about an insurance mandate from that era.

I knew this article was full of Michelle Obama

[jiggyboy]

Great link. The gun “mandate” is a militia issue allowable via other Constitutional means, the insurance “mandate” is a matter of foreign commerce allowable under other Constitutional means, and the per-head tax is just that, a tax.