…and the Affordable Care Act.
I think that historians will note that the passage of that bill was a catalyzing event in history, in that it made crystal clear the antipathy to which the statists held the Founders vision of limited government, particularly with their breezy dismissal of Constitutional concerns, and in fact their complete indifference to them.
I’m not so sure they’re merely indifferent. Little Ezra Klein dissed the Constitution for having been written over 100 years ago.
It’s difficult to sit still through this “analysis” of the reach of a clause in the Constitution whose actual meaning has been perverted and inverted over the past 100 years. One thing stood out, however: the government in it’s litigation always asserts that disobedience on the part of individual citizens “harms commerce.” If that were an actual concern of the government, it would disband it’s entire regulatory system immediately. Nothing harms commerce more than this government’s regulatory apparatus.
Of course, facilitating commerce isn’t actually on the government’s list of concerns at all. Controlling people is number one, and looting the system number two. I speak from a position of some authority on this one…
… and in fact their complete indifference to them.
No, their absolute contempt for them.