Missouri GOP Picks Guy Who Thinks Medicare Is Unconstitutional For U.S. Senate

[Ruby the Liberal]

2. Someone send this illiterate buffoon this snippet, please?

But there’s a major problem with this line of argument: It just isn’t true. The founding fathers, it turns out, passed several mandates of their own. In 1790, the very first Congress—which incidentally included 20 framers—passed a law that included a mandate: namely, a requirement that ship owners buy medical insurance for their seamen. This law was then signed by another framer: President George Washington. That’s right, the father of our country had no difficulty imposing a health insurance mandate.

http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/102620/individual-mandate-history-affordable-care-act