“The power to tax is the power to destroy,” wrote John Marshall, memorably, for a unanimous Court in McCulloch v. Maryland, 193 years ago. True enough. And Congress has the power to tax. ...
It follows, then—unfortunately—that the Supreme Court’s recent decision in National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius, which upheld the individual mandate provisions of the “Affordable Care Act,” was constitutionally correct. But it is important to be clear on what this means: the mandate is constitutional because it is a tax – and it is a tax on freedom. Congress has the power to tax, and thereby to destroy, individual freedom in health insurance.
via www.thepublicdiscourse.com
And freedom in what else, one wonders?
