The Insurance Mandate in Peril

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Author(s)	Randy Barnett
Source	The Wall Street Journal
Date	April 29, 2010
URL	http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704446704575206502199257916.html
Quote	"So defenders of the mandate are making yet another unprecedented claim. Never before has the Court looked behind Congress's unconstitutional assertion of its commerce power to see if a measure could have been justified as a tax. For that matter, never before has a "tax" penalty been used to mandate, rather than discourage or prohibit, economic activity."

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This item argues for the position Act should not have been passed on the topic Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.