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Does the word "Unconstitutional" mean anything to you?
Since they're going to enforce it through taxation, I guess so. Not that people aren't going to try and find ways around it.
Andrew, it is against the U.S. Constitution to FORCE people to buy anything – even OBAMACARE!
To me, this attempt at forcing this on the American people is an IMPEACHABLE ACT.
Need I say more?
Well to me the question seems to be asking whether they can be effectively enforced, not whether they should exist in the first place, but I do agree, that I'm against the new US health care plan. Though impeachable? I think Washington is so far gone that nothing short of raping a child at gun point would get a President impeached anymore.
The government has the power to tax. It's easy enough for the government to say that if you don't buy a home and have a mortgage, you will pay more tax. So it is constitutional.
That does not mean it's necessarily a sound policy, or even that they've connected a health insurance mandate/tax in the best way. It's much easier to argue against the system on policy grounds, as well as on fiscal grounds, than it is on constitutional grounds. They've got two fronts to argue the constitution against us (commerce clause, the one you're focused on, is only one of them).