Antonin Scalia dead at 79.

[JWeinCom]

SocialistSlayer said:

JWeinCom said:

Forcing people to pay income tax is constitutional. there's a frickin constitutional ammendment stating such. so of course it is.

  Forcing people to drive a certain speed is constitutional. a state thing, not anything to do with constitution

  Fining people for not wearing seatbelts is constitutional. again state.

Not allowing people to drink in public is constitutional. come on this is all state.

Forcing people to wear clothes is constitutional. yet again not a constitutional issue

And there's one thing I'm forgetting... Oh yeah, forcing people to join the army to kill and risk death is constitutional.

well this i the only potentially vaild claim you have. though there is this thing in the constitution that charges the federal government to provide for national defense, and states they can raise a military.

Considering that those things are all constitutional, I don't think a fine for not having healthcare is so unreasonable, especially as the uninsured are a burden to the healthcare system, and there are individual exemptions for low income families.

You are aware that the states are also subject to the constitution, right?  A great deal of supreme court cases involve people sueing the state.

Edit:  I'm not going to quibble over the examples.  I'm sure I could have looked up some supreme court cases to find better ones.  The point is that it is indeed perfectly constitutional for the government to compel people to do things, and that it is explicitly constitutional to tax people for the general welfare of the population.