Obamacare’s dark precedent

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Of course we can force you to buy private health insurance, after all, look at what we did to Roscoe Filburn — we forced him to sell his wheat or stop growing it!

That’s at the core of the government’s argument in the Obamacare case today. Just how far into your own personal life can the federal government reach under its constitutional powers to “To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes”?

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