There is a stark difference, though, between a law which merely (allegedly) distorts economic behavior, and one that affects privacy. The former is only vaguely addressed in the Constitution, in the form fo the 9th and 10th Amendments, and even then the Commerce Clause gives the federal government much power in this arena. The latter, however, is very specifically addressed in the 4th Amendment, and there is no catch-all like the Commerce Clause that would undermine it.
True enough. However, something like Obamacare has the potential to cause both massive economic destruction and massive violations of privacy. I mean, the government --the IRS!!!-- will have access to your health data. Sit down and think about what they could learn about anyone by connecting the dots between your Internet, phones and health databases as well as those of the people connected to you. I don't see much good coming from this. I hate to take a paranoid stance but I sure feel, rightly or not, we are living through a pole shift. Our country is being mutated into a beast few of us might recognize as the USA in the future. This really saddens me. I hope I am wrong.
You see clearly, like seeing Godzilla
rising from the East River and
about to come ashore. And you
are 100% correct.
"All we need is another man
like Richard Nixon again" --
sung to the theme song of
'All in the Family'. So,
Tricky Dicky had an "enemies
list" and wanted to use IRS
data. If he had had IRS data,
NSA data, CIA data, FBI data,
and Obamacare data, we might
not have a country now.
