[2ndDivisionVet]

Two words: Tenth Amendment. Massachusetts (RomneyCare) is a state, the USA (ObamaCare) is the federal republic. See the difference?

[Diogenesis]

He is your “hero” with Ted Kennedy and the FELON IMPOSING Death Panels
Socialized medicine, and ObamaCARE/RomneyCARE.

See the difference?

[xzins]

Despite Roberts deciding that a mandate is a tax, I do not believe that a state can violate my right to pursue happiness as I see it. A state can no more play big brother with me and tell me I am hereby ordered to buy broccoli than can the fed.

That is not a state power.

10th amendment actually says: “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people”

Notice the: OR TO THE PEOPLE.

In fact, the 9th says: “The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.”

And finally the 5th says that I can’t be deprived of liberty without due process of law. They would be required to take me to court to prove I had committed some crime is what “due process of law” means.