What if McKenna wins?
Reading first Stewart Jay’s op-ed “New health-reform law is definitely constitutional” [Opinion, April 4] and then State AG Rob McKenna’s adjoining justification for his lawsuit against the mandate part of the law [“Sections of new law violate the Constitution,” Opinion, April 4] brought a disturbing scenario to mind.
If Jay is right that Social Security is a federal insurance mandate and McKenna somehow wins his lawsuit, then there could be grounds to outlaw the Social Security Act as well as Medicare —two things Republicans have been trying to get rid of since their enactments.
Even though McKenna advocates transparency and claims to just be doing his independent duty to fight for our rights, I think he has a hidden agenda. He should come clean and tell us exactly what it is.
— Timothy Walsh, Seattle