re: #106 Daniel Ballard

Nice understatement. After all he’s only a Supreme court justice.

Well, no. It’s that I thought you were referring to other comments he’d made specifically about the early congress mandating that people buy guns. Thus “Those comments”.

anyway at least now you understand my point, agreeing or not.

Not really, no. I don’t see how you’ve addressed the fact that the government already has a massive ability to dictate the lives of its citizens— through the draft— and how that shows that simply mandating someone purchase something doesn’t change the relationship between government and citizen— especially when exactly the same effect on the citizen’s lives could be effected through a tax.

That point made is the enumerated powers issue.

And I don’t see anything in the enumerated powers that would indicate congress doesn’t have the right to mandate people purchase things. Evidently, 14 of the framers also didn’t, because they voted for a law that mandated people purchase things.