Monday, July 2, 2012

John Yoo: Obamacare ruling "exactly the big-government disaster it appears to be" (HT:SD)

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303561504577496520011395292.html?mod=googlenews_wsj


John Yoo: Chief Justice Roberts and His Apologists

Some conservatives see a silver lining in the ObamaCare ruling. But it's exactly the big-government disaster it appears to be.


"Worse still, Justice Roberts's opinion provides a constitutional road map for architects of the next great expansion of the welfare state. Congress may not be able to directly force us to buy electric cars, eat organic kale, or replace oil heaters with solar panels. But if it enforces the mandates with a financial penalty then suddenly, thanks to Justice Roberts's tortured reasoning in Sebelius, the mandate is transformed into a constitutional exercise of Congress's power to tax."

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