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Just a few salient points from the case closest to being on point regarding Congress trying to disguise an illegal regulation of interstate commerce as a TAX. Hint, this is exactly what they are arguing in this healthcare bill. 259 U.S. 38: "Where the sovereign enacting the law has power to impose both tax and penalty the difference between revenue production and mere regulation may be immaterial, but not so when one sovereign can impose a tax only, and the power of regulation rests in another. Taxes are occasionally imposed in the discretion of the legislature on proper subjects with...

Words mean things. Activists, radio hosts, bloggers, talking heads, authors and emailers should refrain from referencing this assault on our economy as "The Health Care 'Reform' Bill." The word "reform" brings to mind things like "easier;" "streamlined;" "uncluttered," and "up-to-date." The results of this legislation will be the opposite of those words, as most of us are aware. Therefore, the use of the word "reform" is cooperation with the delusions that the RATs have attempted to foist upon the complacent TV addicts of our nation. I beg you to call it what it is: It is a Health Care Demolition...