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Not just talking about some dan tick principle important to -- dan tick principle important to law profess society. if they can mandate medical insurance because doing so would be advantageous to this broad regulatory scheme there's nothing they cannot mandate. they can con script you to use your hard earned dollars to purchase a variety of goods, services and commodities. >> here's the argument a lot of the supporters make. this mandate is structured as a tax. you pay a penalty if you don't buy insurance and a tax under the constitution is legal and constitutional since the 16th amendment pas...

We would argue that this is a direct tax imposed by the federal government that's really in the nature of a surcharge and not a true income tax and you mentioned the 16th amendment. 16th amendment only allows the federal government to impose taxes on income for whatever source is derived. a very important point. limitations on the federal government, the taxing authority are on the same basis or derived from the same basis of the limitations on the commerce clause because you don't want to have a federal government with too large of the power, and again, to underscore, it's not just protecting...

Revolutionary this precedence is. we're not talking about a p pedantic. if the federal government can mandate the purchasing of health insurance, merely because it would be to the broad regulatory scheme, there's nothing they cannot mandate. they can in effect conscript you to use your hard earned dollars to purchase a varieties of goods, services and commodities. >> paul: here is an argument a lot of supporters make, that is, this is structured. this mandate is structured as a tax. you pay a penalty if you don't buy insurance and a tax under the constitution is surely legal and constitutional...

We would argue that this is a direct tax imposed by the federal government that's really in the nature of a surcharge and not a true income tax and you mentioned the 16th amendment. 16th amendment only allows the federal government to impose taxes on income for whatever source is derived. a very important point. limitations on the federal government, the taxing authority are on the same basis or derived from the same basis of the limitations on the commerce clause because you don't want to have a federal government with too large of the power, and again, to underscore, it's not just protecting...

Revolutionary this precedence is. we're not talking about a p pedantic. if the federal government can mandate the purchasing of health insurance, merely because it would be to the broad regulatory scheme, there's nothing they cannot mandate. they can in effect conscript you to use your hard earned dollars to purchase a varieties of goods, services and commodities. >> paul: here is an argument a lot of supporters make, that is, this is structured. this mandate is structured as a tax. you pay a penalty if you don't buy insurance and a tax under the constitution is surely legal and constitutional...