Obamacare, the Constitution, and the Taxing Power

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Obamacare, the Constitution, and the Taxing Power

Written by  Joe Wolverton, II

 

We’re all familiar with the classic shell game. We follow the ball. We know the huckster’s tricks and we know he is moving it around to trip us up, but we believe our eyes are faster than the huckster’s hands.

Since the day in November of last year when the Supreme Court announced that it would hear the ObamaCare case, Americans have watched the ball of the individual mandate. We reckoned that we knew where the huckster was going to put it and some of us thought there was even a chance that it would fall off the table completely.