I have asked this before and I will continue to ask it. If you can’t buy health insurance across state lines, it is clearly INTRASTATE COMMERCE. What Constitutional power does the Federal Gov’t have over INTRASTATE commerce? Unless the Supreme Court declares that insurance is a Consitutional right, the Feds have no role here.
If you can’t buy health insurance across state linesI'm not sure it matters either way, as the SCOTUS shot down the Commerce Clause arguments. FWIW, Obamacare allows for you to buy insurance across state lines. In order to do so, your state has to form an agreement with the other state.
I agree, but for these guys now, the rule of law has been distorted into a tightly-wound ball of contradictory rulings that result in the ability to do and say to us whatever they wish. In other words, law has fully become lawlessness for their personal gain — and they admit it to themselves and laugh. It isn’t even ideology that motivates them.
“What Constitutional power does they Federal Gov’t have over INTRASTATE commerce?”
None. But they have court-created power over commerce which “substantially affects” interstate commerce. Heck, they have power over any activity which affects interstate commerce, even if it isn’t commerce.
That’s boy at issue here. The mandate was not upheld under the commerce clause. It supposedly derives from the taxing power. Which means it’s not a mandate, really, just a hint how not to get taxed. If you’re wondeing just what is the taxing power and for what purposes and by what means it can be invoked, well, it’s basically unlimited. You can raise taxes however you want and spend the money after you get it as you please, you being the feds. Unless it affects “discreet minorities,” or in other words is politically incorrect, or very obviously violates one of the rights in the Bill of Rights they still choose to pay attention to.