First wheat, now healthcare
Thursday, March 29, 2012 - 02:30
in Mathematics & Economics
A Supreme Court ruling on New Deal farm policies has relevance today.The Obama administration is relying heavily on a 1942 Supreme Court case to sway today's justices as they consider the constitutionality of compelling Americans to buy health insurance. The 1942 ruling, in Wickard vs. Filburn, declared that "it is hardly lack of due process for the government to regulate that which it subsidizes." The case spurred a vast increase in political-bureaucratic control over American life, even though the court's ruling rested on mind-boggling economic illiteracy.
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