One it became constititutional to tax income, the government was provided access to a source of money sufficiently large to do a lot of things.

It is a long standing Constitutional axiom that the spending power of the government exceeds the regulatory power of government.

Thus, there are lots of things the federal government can’t per se regulate but where they can use money to buy what they want.

Obamacare is bad policy and it is unconstitutional. However, it would be easy to devise an even worse version of Obamacare that would be Constitutional—Medicare for all.

Medicare is not unconstitutional. It is a program supported by a super-majority of Americans over an extended period of time. THe Constitution has been de-facto amended to endorse SS and Medicare.

Ultimately, we are nation of self-governed people. The Constitution provides that a super-majority must be extended over a period of time in order to violate the previous version of the Constitution.

Do you think a Constitutional Amendment saving Medicare or SS wouldn’t pass?