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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: TimF who wrote (23831)6/28/2012 2:57:26 PM
From: Road Walker  Read Replies (1) of 42652
 
I haven't read the decision, but I wonder where in the constitution the Supreme Court finds the federal power to impose such a tax.

Its not in the 16th amendment

"The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration."
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Article I, Section 8, Clause 1 of the United States Constitution, is known as the Taxing and Spending Clause. [1] It is the clause that gives the federal government of the United States its power of taxation. Component parts of this clause are known as the General Welfare Clause [2] and the Uniformity Clause.

Constitutional text
The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence [note 1] and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
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