Yes, the individual mandate is legal...

[elfs]

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That each and every free able-bodied white male citizen of the respective States, resident therein, who is or shall be of age of eighteen years, and under the age of forty-five years shall, within six months, provide himself with a good musket or firelock, a sufficient bayonet and belt, two spare flints, and a knapsack, a pouch, with a box therein, to contain not less than twenty four cartridges, suited to the bore of his musket or firelock, each cartridge to contain a proper quantity of powder and ball; or with a good rifle, knapsack, shot-pouch, and powder-horn, twenty balls suited to the bore of his rifle, and a quarter of a pound of powder. - The Second Militia Act of 1792.

If an individual mandate was legal for George Washington, it's legal for Barack Obama.

Comments

[slfisher.livejournal.com]

Actually, the response to that here (where our Governor was the first to sign a bill authorizing legal action against health care) is that, well, you don't *have* to have a car.

[dv-girl.livejournal.com]

And if we had good public transportation, I could accept that argument but in most of the US, akin to saying "You don't need food EVERY day."

[slfisher.livejournal.com]

I'm not saying it's a reasonable argument, just saying that's what their argument is.