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. It results that the power of Congress to authorize expenditure of public moneys for public purposes is not limited by the direct grants of legislative power found in the Constitution.
Public money is money collected by the government via taxes and fees.
Forcing me to spend my money on a product such as health insurance is not a use of public moneys.
Now if the government levied a new tax on everyone for the specific intention of funding health care, that would be another thing all together and there would be no discussion of the constitutionality of it because that type of tax falls within the enumerated powers of the federal government.
Exactly. It is a bastardization of the Commerce Clause. Congress does not have the right to force commerce. And second point on this is that this is a violation of the 10th Amendment.