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RANDY BARNETT: Balkin ?Flips.? ?You want to know another claim that is unprecedented? The clai?

By Glenn Reynolds

RANDY BARNETT: Balkin ?Flips.? “You want to know another claim that is unprecedented? The claim that Congress may require any person in the US to do anything it deems to be in the public interest or pay a fine or penalty to the IRS. I do not know who first came up with this theory, but whoever it was was pushing the envelope of federal power beyond anywhere it had ever gone. The Tax power has never been used to impose a mandate on the American people and the Supreme Court has never recognized such a power.”

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on July 21, 2010 (boomark / email).