Posted on 01/18/2010 5:27:10 PM PST by Lorianne
As the General Assembly prepares to convene Wednesday, Republicans have introduced a series of bills designed to counter federal policy. The state's new Republican attorney general says he is assembling a legal team with an eye to challenging the federal government in court. And Virginia's newly elected Republican governor said he plans to engage actively in a national conversation about limiting Washington's power.
"I think the federal government is out of control," said House Speaker William J. Howell (R-Stafford). "There's genuine concern, not just from Republicans, but from people who are just concerned citizens. . . . And I believe the message is clear: We better be paying attention."
One bill lawmakers will consider is a measure to make it illegal to require people to buy health insurance, which is designed to invalidate congressional efforts to mandate insurance coverage.
Another would declare that the federal government has no right to regulate as interstate commerce any good or service produced or performed entirely within Virginia. A third would specify that Washington can't regulate guns that are made and sold in the state.
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Sic semper tyrranis!
The state already requires people to buy car insurance, wear seatbelts, buy a driver license, ad nauseum.
Nice thought, though.
More good news. Strange that so much is coming from Virginia and Massachusetts, just like it was in the good old days. I hope it’s spreading.
Now that'd get attention!
Yes, but when a state becomes tyrannical you have the freedom to move out and keep your US citizenship. If tyranny becomes nationwide you have nowhere to go.
Virginia DOESN'T REQUIRE you to buy insurance. It has an UNINSURED MOTORIST'S FUND.
And people who don't drive cars on Virginia streets and roads don't even need a driver's license, or automobile insurance, or shoes. Lots of 'em walk around without shoes, or socks, all the time. It's still the right of store owners to refuse service to people without socks or shoes.
You don't come from around here do you!?!?!!!!!???!?!?
That is correct.
In which U.S. state may I smoke in a bar or a restaurant?
Why was I asked to show my driver license, registration and proof of insurance last month in Alexandria?
Alabama, Alaska, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas, West Virginia, and Wyoming.
There is considerable difference between a State requiring it and the Federal Government doing so.
I was prohibited from smoking in Lubbock, TX yesterday, allegedly by city ordinance.
Except when the fedguv coerces a state into doing so (seatbelts).
Because you were asked and that’s Alexandria. On the other hand I’ve NEVER been asked to show proof of insurance in Virginia except at the DMV where they ASK if you have insurance ~ and they don’t ask about who, or what, or how much. If you say no you have to pay the Uninsured Motorists Fee. The law is clear ~ see: http://law.justia.com/virginia/codes/toc3802000/38.2-2206.html
The point is the STATE requires these things, not the fed.
New Hampshire 2/4/2010
New Hampshire Soverignty Resolution
“... that the government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself; since that would have made its discretion, and not the Constitution, the measure of its powers; but that, as in all other cases of compact among powers having no common judge, each party has an equal right to judge for itself, as well of infractions as of the mode and measure of redress...”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2178001/posts
It is, and quite rapidly.
About a dozen states are contemplating Tenth amendment legislation, some have already passed it.
And .1 blood alchohol limits, and speed limits, and many other things. There is no question that the Federal Government using extortion of tax money to coerce the States is an abomination. We should all work to change that. The Republicans in ‘94 came within a few votes of doing away with the gasoline tax. It would have helped a great deal. The MSM stopped that approach.
Not because of Federal law.
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