The Broccoli Test

FreedomPolitics

By Michael D. Tanner

We should give it to the GOP presidential candidates. Call it the broccoli test. During oral arguments before the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on the constitutionality of Obamacare's health-insurance mandate, the Obama administration's lawyer, Beth Brinkmann, was asked whether a federal law requiring all Americans to eat broccoli would be constitutional.

"It depends," she replied. But she could certainly envision cases where it would be.

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