Ron Paul: ObamaCare an “Unconstitutional Monstrosity”

Ron Paul rightly blasts ObamaCare as an “unconstitutional monstrosity” and yet we might see this week whether or not the Supreme Court agrees. As Dr. Paul has pointed out time and again, ObamaCare is but the latest example of a federal government that behaves as if the Constitution doesn’t exist. The American Spectator’sJames Antle makes a similar point regarding this week’s decision:

Today the Supreme Court begins to hear a constitutional challenge to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare. But this case really goes a long way toward deciding whether we have constitutionally limited government at all…

If the Supreme Court accepts the individual mandate, even under the pretext of regulating interstate commerce, the federal government will have exactly what those who framed and ratified the Constitution sought explicitly to deny it: a general police power. If the Court accepts that the individual mandate is a legitimate tax, then the federal government can levy taxes for any purpose, not just to carry out functions delegated to it by the Constitution…

But what’s at stake here isn’t a particular health care policy, or the legacy of one president, or the outcome of a single presidential election. It is whether we respect that Founding Fathers’ idea of a federal government whose powers are few and defined, laid out in a Constitution that imposes substantive as well as procedural limits on federal power. It is hard to rule in favor of Obamacare without ruling against the Founders’ Constitution.

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