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The existence of a person may have a potential affect of some degree on interstate commerce, and therefore can be regulated in entirety under the commerce Claud
by ThunderSizzle 5y ago
The existence of a person may have a potential affect of some degree on interstate commerce, and therefore can be regulated in entirety under the commerce Claude.
That is the reasoning behind the affordable health care act on existing without government mandated levels of health insurance e. Your existence as a human affects commerce, and therefore is penalizable.
And the stupid 16th amendment. That's caused just as many problems as the commerce clause.
- 8note 5y agoOverall the 16th sounds pretty perfect? Ability to have income taxes, without the states objecting? Or is your criticism that some states should pay more income tax than others?
- thaumasiotes 5y ago> Your existence as a human affects commerce, and therefore is penalizable. Your existence can be taxed directly under the original constitution; that doesn't need the reinterpreted commerce clause.
- thaumasiotes 5y agoWhy was I downvoted? The text of the sixteenth amendment makes this obvious: > The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration. That qualifier -- "without apportionment among the states" -- allows income taxes that aren't head taxes. Head taxes were already allowed. Nothing to do with any interpretation of the commerce clause.