Posted on 07/28/2010 10:27:29 AM PDT by Nachum
WASHINGTON – Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst warned this morning that the new federal health care legislation will bust Texas’ budget – saddling state taxpayers with $27 billion in extra costs over the next decade.
“That’s an astounding number for us,” Dewhurst told the Texas State Society over breakfast, including a half-dozen members of Congress. “We’re on the hook for all those folks we’ve been trying to get to sign up for Medicaid.”
Doubling the state’s Medicaid rolls, he said, will mean that health care claims an ever-bigger share of the state budget. And that segment has already grown from one-quarter of the budget to one-third in the last seven years.
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Obamacare is unconstitutional since Article 1 Section 8 does not specifically list regulating health care as an enumerated power! The people are not bound to comply with an unconstitutional act! It is time for Americans to defend the Constitution by openly defying this marxist regime!
thats the idea...is the federal gov allowed to destroy states?
thats the idea...is the federal gov allowed to destroy states?
thats the idea...is the federal gov allowed to destroy states?
Most of the controls the federal government has over the states is through the threat to cut off various subsidies, but this may finally be a case where the subsidy isn't enough and dropping out of the system entirely may be cheaper.
only if we do not resist
Im not seeing enough resistance to matter.
lets take it to court
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