(December 5, 2010 at 11:47 pm)Mishka Wrote: But the courts are granting expanded powers to the federal government through the Commerce clause. A judge in Virgina affirmed the health care mandate due to his belief that a person will need health care at some point in his or her life. Talk about stretching the Commerce clause.
No doubt. That is an argument so retarded it is practically embarrassing; the fact that someone might engage in commerce in the future constitutes his engaging in commerce now.
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when
called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
(Oscar Wilde)
called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
(Oscar Wilde)