Obama Admin – You don’t like Obamacare? There’s always poverty!
Obama’s solicitor general made this argument when questioned by the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals:
During the Sixth Circuit arguments, Judge Jeffrey Sutton, who was nominated by President George W. Bush, asked Kaytal if he could name one Supreme Court case which considered the same question as the one posed by the mandate, in which Congress used the Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution as a tool to compel action.