What the Obamacare Decision Reminds Us
June 29, 2012
The federal government, under the Constitution that is so holy and sacred to many conservatives, has the unlimited power to tax. And, as an earlier Supreme Court chief justice said, “The power to tax is the power to destroy.”
Laurence M. Vance [send him mail] writes from central Florida. He is the author of The Free Society; War, Christianity, and the State: Essays on the Follies of Christian Militarism; War, Empire, and the Military: Essays on the Follies of War and U.S. Foreign Policy; King James, His Bible, and Its Translators, and many other books. His newest book is The U.S. Proxy War in Ukraine.
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