On Fox Ron Paul Calls Social Security and Medicare Unconstitutional, Compares Them to ‘Slavery’

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Run time: 02:03 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzc1Dx530uc   Posted on YouTube: May 15, 2011 By YouTube Member: thinkprogress5 Views on YouTube: 311   Posted on DU: May 16, 2011 By DU Member: democracy1st Views on DU: 4558

 
Appearing on Fox News Sunday this morning, Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) defended his longstanding view that Medicare, Social Security (and pretty much everything else) violate the Constitution. At one point, Paul even claimed that letting Social Security and similar programs to move forward is just like permitting slavery:

WALLACE: You talk a lot about the Constitution. You say Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid are all unconstitutional.

PAUL: Technically, they are. . . . there’s no authority . Article I, Section 8 doesn’t say I can set up an insurance program for people. What part of the Constitution are you getting it from? The liberals are the ones who use this General Welfare Clause. . . . That is such an extreme liberal viewpoint that has been mistaught in our schools for so long and that’s what we have to reverse—that very notion that you’re presenting.

WALLACE: Congressman, it’s not just a liberal view. It was the decision of the Supreme Court in 1937 when they said that Social Security was constitutional under Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution.

PAUL: And the Constitution and the courts said slavery was legal to, and we had to reverse that.

http://thinkprogress.org/2011/05/15/paul-ss-medicare-slavery/