What else can the Democrat Socialists Mandate?

If they can mandate each and every individual purchase government health insurance, under penalty of law, then why can't they also force us to buy:

• $2,500 in fresh fruits and vegetables a year, even if you don't eat them.
• A sewer system to replace all septic systems (oh, wait, they already did that to me at a cost of over $12,000)
• Expensive Florescent bulbs with toxic mercury (oh, wait, they've done that already, via banning incandescent ones!)
• Public school property tax (oh, wait, that's already done in many states; or pay twice to send your kids to private)
• Everyone MUST buy a trigger lock for a gun (even if they don't own a gun!)
• Everyone pay 40% more to heat or cool their home (oh, wait, Cap 'n Tax will accomplish that with Carbon credits and mandates!)

We Need "Blue Light" Mandates

The mandate is front and center in the constitutional challenges to Obamacare's requirement that everyone purchase health insurance or suffer penalties.

I've been posting about the mandate since last summer, since the mandate for the first time punishes and taxes the failure to engage in economic activity.

Although Obama opposed a mandate during the campaign, it should not be a terrible surprise that he would trumpet a lawrequiring people to engage in economic activity he deemed central to his overall health care plans:

Barack Obama will require you to work. He is going to demand that you shed your cynicism. That you put down your divisions. That you come out of your isolation, that you move out of your comfort zones. That you push yourselves to be better. And that you engage. Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual, uninvolved, uninformed.

Whether such a mandate is constitutional is the subject of another good discussion at Volokh Conspiracy, this time fromDavid Kopel (h/t Instapundit), Is the tax power infinite?:

I've been posting about the mandate since last summer, since the mandate for the first time punishes and taxes the failure to engage in economic activity.

Although Obama opposed a mandate during the campaign, it should not be a terrible surprise that he would trumpet a lawrequiring people to engage in economic activity he deemed central to his overall health care plans:

Barack Obama will require you to work. He is going to demand that you shed your cynicism. That you put down your divisions. That you come out of your isolation, that you move out of your comfort zones. That you push yourselves to be better. And that you engage. Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual, uninvolved, uninformed.

Whether such a mandate is constitutional is the subject of another good discussion at Volokh Conspiracy, this time fromDavid Kopel (h/t Instapundit), Is the tax power infinite?:

Although Obama opposed a mandate during the campaign, it should not be a terrible surprise that he would trumpet a lawrequiring people to engage in economic activity he deemed central to his overall health care plans:

Barack Obama will require you to work. He is going to demand that you shed your cynicism. That you put down your divisions. That you come out of your isolation, that you move out of your comfort zones. That you push yourselves to be better. And that you engage. Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual, uninvolved, uninformed.

Whether such a mandate is constitutional is the subject of another good discussion at Volokh Conspiracy, this time fromDavid Kopel (h/t Instapundit), Is the tax power infinite?: