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"Proponents of HR-3962 or similar legislation will, of course, quote Clause 1, which reads:

The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;

That clause does not say anything specific about what "general welfare" means. More to the point, that specific clause deals solely with the taxing power of the Congress and what tax and other revenues may be used for. This section goes on to grant specific powers to Congress, and again, public hospitals, public employment of doctors, fixing of their fees, and so on, is not among those powers.

Then we hear of Clause 18, the "Necessary and Proper Clause," or the "Elastic Clause":

To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.

Note carefully: "all other powers vested by this Constitution." The Constitution does not vest health maintenance powers in the Constitution. Not in the original text, nor indeed in any of its amendments. Thus bills like HR-3962 would be neither necessary nor proper."

This bill is nothing more than an attempt to enslave every American - and make U.S. beholden to the few in Washington.