The last exit ramp on the road to unlimited government.

George Will writes about the Institute for Justice’s amicus brief to the SCOTUS concerning Obamacare:

Now the Institute for Justice (IJ), a libertarian public interest law firm, has focused on this fact: The individual mandate is incompatible with centuries of contract law. This is so because a compulsory contract is an oxymoron.

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Many oxymorons can be found within government (like army intelligence) so why should this hiccup stop them? Even if SCOTUS buys into the argument, it only means that some detail or another need be ironed out before the mantle of legality is bestowed upon American socialized medicine.

It’s fair to say that both sides want it in some form, depending on where partisan special interests align. Medicare is heading toward unaffordability and both big-government parties wish to ration medical care for the power it can bring. We can place bets, but it seems a lock that SCOTUS will endeavor to keep the door open – even if they nit-pick some legal minutia along the way.