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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Alighieri who wrote (16201)	4/6/2010 11:16:31 AM
From: TimF	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

Taxes aren't purchases. The government does constitutionally have the power to tax. Limited power originally than greatly expanded power with the Sixteenth Amendment. An amendment to the constitution could make the purchase requirement constitutional, or the feds could pressure the 50 states to put it in place (no highway funds, not stimulus funds or bailouts, etc. if you don't cave in and pass the requirement), but directly requiring the purchase goes beyond the federal governments current constitutional authority.

To: Alighieri who wrote (16201)	4/6/2010 11:44:07 AM
From: i-node	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

>> The both require a contribution (purchase) at the federal level. This isn't complicated at all. SS & MC are entitlement programs funded by taxes that are constitutionally levied. There is no purchase of goods from a third party. The individual mandate is a requirement that a person enter into a transaction with a third party to purchase something he may not want. The alleged constitutional basis is that the federal government has the "right" to regulate as commerce the lack of any such commerce. Two entirely different concepts.