Could Congress pass a tax on the failure to purchase at least 2 pounds of broccoli per week? Suppose your income tax liability will be increased by $2000 unless you can produce receipts showing the purchase of at least 100 pounds of broccoli during the relevant tax year. Constitutional?
Notice that "The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts
and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and
general welfare of the United States."
The web log for Prof. Duncan's Constitutional Law Classes at Nebraska Law-- "[U]nder our Constitution there can be no such thing as either a creditor or a debtor race. That concept is alien to the Constitution's focus upon the individual. In the eyes of government, we are just one race here. It is American. " -----Justice Antonin Scalia If you allow the government to take your liberty during times of crisis, it will create a crisis whenever it wishes to take your liberty.
Tuesday, October 02, 2018
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