Dad2three
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That would be your opinion. Which, me boy, has NO value. You seem to have a high opinion of your understanding of history. Good for you. You know how much the rest of us value your opinion.
Next time try a link to some proof. Someone may be interested.
Thank you for your thoughtful and most gracious assessment of my opinion and your open minded approach to the topic. As for 'proof', well I could link you to the Library of Congress that most likely has ALL the documents that real students of history study on the topic, usually for years. But here's a pretty good place to start and then you can branch out from there:
Federalist Papers, AntiFederalist Papers, Amendments, Constitution
Our tenet ever was... that Congress had not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but were restrained to those specifically enumerated, and that, as it was never meant that they should provide for that welfare but by the exercise of the enumerated powers, so it could not have been meant they should raise money for purposes which the enumeration did not place under their action; consequently, that the specification of powers is a limitation of the purposes for which they may raise money." --Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 1817. ME 15:133
You mean the ANTI federalist TJ would say that? The same guy who doubled the US without Congress's approval?
Congress Passes Socialized Medicine and Mandates Health Insurance -In 1798
In July of 1798, Congress passed – and President John Adams signed - “An Act for the Relief of Sick and Disabled Seamen.” The law authorized the creation of a government operated marine hospital service (VA, MEDICARE) and mandated that privately employed sailors be required to purchase health care insurance.
....This government provided healthcare service was to be paid for by a mandatory tax on the maritime sailors (a little more than 1% of a sailor’s wages), the same to be withheld from a sailor’s pay and turned over to the government by the ship’s owner. The payment of this tax for health care was not optional. If a sailor wanted to work, he had to pay up.
Congress Passes Socialized Medicine and Mandates Health Insurance -In 1798 - Forbes