My point on the matter of "invisibility" (if i'm reading you right) is that the court should not consider laws which don't exist in ruling whether one law is valid. It should stand compared only to things that exist or have existed in American jurisprudence, or if it is struck down, certainly not on the grounds that "it can be done better that way, but since it wasn't, this way is unconstitutional."
What of the controversy regarding paying property taxes when you don't have school-aged children and are no longer of childbearing age? It's more or less the same thing, wherein government forces you to pay for something you don't use, and i'm guessing a lot more people get hit on that than on "never used health insurance in my life." People pay in for the greater good.
Monster Hunter: pissing me off since 2010.
