Posted on 05/23/2013 4:09:44 PM PDT by mdittmar
SEEMS to think. But then again, probably not.
"State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress (emphases added)." --Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824."Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States." --Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
And given Justice John Marshall's clarification of Congress's limited power to lay taxes, it can be argued that the states should accept Obamacare funds to help recover state revenues which were stolen from the states by corrupt Congress laying constitutionally indefensible taxes.
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