” Back in 2010, Georgetown Law professor Randy Barnett, who has been described as the legal
architect behind challenges to the health care law, wrote a paper on the unconstitutionality of
Obamacare in which he issued the following warning about the Obama administration’s
taxing power claim: “(T)he government’s tax power theory is far more radical than the Commerce and Necessary
and Proper Clause theory precisely because the Supreme Court has generally deferred to any invocation of the tax power to raise revenue to spend for the general welfare. “
