Posts Tagged ‘Constitution does not allow forcing people to buy things
Question: Assuming the worst, how is it Constitutional for Leftists to force anyone to buy anything?
Let’s put aside all talk of what will and will not happen as the House votes on Healthcare Rationing today. Just for a moment.
Let’s instead academically and legally investigate whether the federal government is empowered to force any American to buy anything.
Is that Constitutional?
Does anyone know of any good legal essays exploring this?
We just don’t see how it’s possible for Leftists to dictate that every American must buy health insurance — a private commodity issued by private firms.
We don’t see how the IRS is authorized to police the American citizenry to determine whether individuals have bought the things the government has told them to buy.
That’s the sort of thing Hitler’s S.S. was empowered to do for him, and the Revolutionary Guard does in Iran. It’s the kind of thing Saudis and the United Arab Emirates have religious police tasked with — constantly spying on, harassing, and investigating the citizenry to ensure they’re complying with all the insane mandates from the government.
The government is only authorized to tax income by the amendment to the Constitution authorizing such action.
There is no amendment to the Constitution that empowers the government to force citizens to purchase items.
The way we read the income tax authorization is thus: if you collect income in a given year, the government must get a share of that income, as dictated by the laborious tax code that the government puts forward explaining how much income you must pay.
Nowhere in that income tax collection amendment is anything that grants the government the power to compel any of us to buy anything. They can tax the money we make. They have an institution to collect those taxes and a system in place to punish tax cheats (or, in the case of Leftists, elevate them to Cabinet positions), but there is no mechanism for forcing people to buy things.
We just do not, still, see how they can accomplish this.
Can anyone explain that to us?
It’s really an Emperor’s New Clothes moment we think. It seems so obvious, but we don’t see anyone talking about this simple fact. No matter what bill Democrats try to pass today, if it includes the forcing of Americans to buy ANYTHING, then it’s unconstitutional.
Plain and simple.
The states did not cede this power to the government.
The Founders did not give the government this power.
The states themselves don’t have the power to force citizens to buy anything.
How exactly do Leftists argue this is at all possible?
