Economics professor Richard Ebeling reminds us here that the reasons for the rebellion against the British Crown was due to meddlesome, intrusive, costly, arrogant government. Just what we have been getting from the Republicrats ever since Calvin Coolidge was president.

It’s worth keeping this history in mind when the constitutionality of Obamacare comes up. Did the same people who fought the mightiest power on the planet because it was too authoritarian mean to permit their government to do equally dictatorial things, such as compel people to make certain purchases that politicians want them to make?