Posted on 11/16/2012 5:36:50 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Edited on 11/16/2012 5:40:29 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
I have been reading this Cato Institute legal research paper by Michael Cannon and it’s making me realize that the GOP governors could really make Obamacare a political liablity for the Democrats by refusing to set up a state run health exchange. It is a fascinating read and I highly recommend it. In summary, it looks like the Obama Adminstration ultimately is going to have to count on a second John Roberts rescue. Here’s why. First, from Philip Klein:
With the election over and Obama reelected, repealing the law is not going to happen over the next four years. So 30 Republican governors will have to make a decision about whether they want to help the federal government implement Obamacare, or keep the onus on the Obama administration.
One of the silver linings of the Supreme Court decision is that it gave states the ability to opt out of the Medicaid expansion. Medicaid is one of the programs that is crushing state budgets and if implemented as intended, Obamacare will add 18 million beneficiaries to the program’s rolls. Though the federal government lures states with a honey pot in the short term – covering all of the expansion through 2016, by 2020 the states will be asked to kick in 10 percent of the cost, amounting to billions of dollars of spending imposed on states nationwide each year. It would be to the long-term benefit of governors to opt (out) of the expansion...
Never surrender and never give up hope. In a few years this monstrosity will be absorbing so much of the federal budget that the only alternative for the left will be to print money and bring on massive monetary inflation. We may have to endure some real hard times to open some folks eyes but that will do the trick.
Is Cloward Piven Strategy Finally Reaching its Sorry Conclusion
The Constitution (not that Roberts reads it) states:
The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
There are two and only two choices. Either the tax has to be apportioned or it must be uniform. Smaller states would never have allowed the larger states to tax me and not thee.
It is becoming more clear that 0bamacare taxpenalty is neither. Scalia pointed out in his opinion that this is still a pending issue because neither side was given the opportunity to address it in the original case.
But when a federal appeal court rules that banning race from consideration in admission to public universities is unconstitutional, the federal bench as become little for than a sad joke.
And if the penalty is a tax....then every person who is working will pay...including those making less than $250,000...you know....the middle class folks who will NEVER be asked to pay more....cough, cough
Who cares what the Supreme Court says? A courageous governor and his/her state is not bound by them.
The decision will be made when the state’s citizens vote out the governor who turned down Federal goodies which were a condition of implementing Zerocare.
Unless Zerocare is so ruinous that they’re better off on their own.
They tried to blackmail Petreas. I wonder what they had on Roberts. I also wonder why George Bush didn’t know what they had on him. Was he properly vetted or did he do something AFTER he was sworn in.
So I’m directed from FR to ‘Minuteman News’ to Red State in order to get to a Cato study?
Roberts is the Major Frank Burns of the SCOTUS “4077th” unit.
Yeah, I make millions directing people to three or four sites at a time.
well he has had a couple of well publicized seizures....total speculation but I wonder if its health related
What the Republican governors should do is remove the negotiating rights of state workers and force them into the same type of health insurance and retirement program as private sector workers.
Right now, the SEIU members and teachers believe that their health insurance coverage is sacrosanct, that they will never be forced to into the same rationed care system that they have pushed on the rest of us. We need to make sure that they suffer the same fate as the rest of us and know that it is coming, especially the teachers. Oh, that goes double for politicians.
You do good work posting threads here. Just seemed like a circuitous route to get there.
Yeah, I don’t know why they did that. The Red State headline was many miles too long for here, so I decided to post the other, otherwise I’d have gone to the original source.
Check this out.....STATES are the last bulwark against the FEDS.... http://www.wheresthelineamerica.com/SitePages/wheres-the-line-america.aspx
State won’t set up health insurance exchange, Walker tells feds
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