There Will be Blood

[Mishka]

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.

Glad you're a mind reader and a predicter of human behavior. The rest of us are not. If a person doesn't drive or own a car now, should the govt. make him buy car insurance anyway, assuming he will own one in the future?

[Ashendant]

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.

Glad you're a mind reader and a predicter of human behavior. The rest of us are not. If a person doesn't drive or own a car now, should the govt. make him buy car insurance anyway, assuming he will own one in the future?

That argument is retarded, in europe it's illegal to drive a car without proper insurance, with the only exception being taking the car out of the shop to nearby of your house

[Ryft]

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.

Glad you're a mind reader and a predicter of human behavior. The rest of us are not. If a person doesn't drive or own a car now, should the govt. make him buy car insurance anyway, assuming he will own one in the future?

Evidently you completely mistook my comment. Allow me to rephrase to ensure clarity: "[The argument the judge used is] so retarded it is practically embarrassing; the fact that someone might engage in commerce in the future constitutes his engaging in commerce now."

[Mishka]

Much better. I expect some common sense coming from the other case in Va. whose decision is due by the end of the month.