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South Carolina Lawmakers take air at Health Care Law
Reuters ^
| January 14, 2014
| Harriet McCleod
Posted on 01/15/2014 9:36:56 AM PST by Din Maker
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I hope this is the beginning of many States following suit.
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posted on
01/15/2014 9:36:56 AM PST
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Din Maker
To: Din Maker
It’s supposed to be take “aim”. My bad. Cut me some slack, I’m a newbie.
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01/15/2014 9:37:42 AM PST
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Din Maker
To: Din Maker
Excellent! Let’s all play follow the leader.
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posted on
01/15/2014 9:40:42 AM PST
by
TBP
(Obama lies, Granny dies.)
To: 2nd amendment mama
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01/15/2014 9:42:38 AM PST
by
basil
(2ASisters.org)
To: Din Maker
Well, snce most states already have programs set up to help the poor get insurance the ACA(ha!) doesn’t make sense in any way shape or form.
A couple simple changes like tort reform and and allowing some pre-existing conditions, would hav ebeen all that was neccessary to “fix this mess”. Insead, we have communism.
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01/15/2014 9:44:23 AM PST
by
vpintheak
(Thankful to be God blessed & chosen!)
To: upchuck
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01/15/2014 9:45:37 AM PST
by
Gamecock
(Celebrating 20,000 posts of dubious quality.)
To: stylecouncilor
SC ping....
Until some Federal judge slaps ‘em down. Don’t look for any help from the likes of Roberts on appeal either.
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01/15/2014 9:55:29 AM PST
by
onedoug
To: Din Maker
Won’t work in the long run. So many federal dollars flow to the states, that the federal government can cut them ALL off for non-compliance to any federal law or edict. Highway funds, FEMA funds, Medicare, Medicaid, Food stamps, EBT, anything that the federal government decides to cut off, to ensure compliance, they will cut.
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01/15/2014 9:56:04 AM PST
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Red Badger
(Proud member of the Zeta Omicron Tau Fraternity since 2004...................)
To: Red Badger
The state should counter by not forwarding tax dollars to the feds.
To: morphing libertarian
And just how does that work?...................
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01/15/2014 10:01:12 AM PST
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Red Badger
(Proud member of the Zeta Omicron Tau Fraternity since 2004...................)
To: Red Badger
hell, I don’t know but it sounds good.
To: morphing libertarian
The states have become so addicted to federal funds since the 60’s that any cut off now would cause them to cry ‘UNCLE’ immediately.......................
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01/15/2014 10:13:59 AM PST
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Red Badger
(Proud member of the Zeta Omicron Tau Fraternity since 2004...................)
To: Red Badger
Never think you’ve seen the last of anything.
Eudora Welty
1909-2001
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01/15/2014 10:16:27 AM PST
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Red Badger
(Proud member of the Zeta Omicron Tau Fraternity since 2004...................)
To: Red Badger
i’ve kind of wondered that too.
it would me a massive change [needed imo]
All tax dollars go to state FIRST - then the state forwards the fed portion.
I’d dig it.
To: Red Badger
I would like to think that one state, SC maybe, could steel its spine sufficiently to get itself through all that. If it did and the FedGov did cut off ALL the fed$ tot he State the State would find itself after a year in a much better position with a LOT more freedom. Most of the rules and restrictions on the States that come from DC would be unConstitutional if passed as laws but are not laws- they are conditions for accepting that federal money. If the money were not accepted, for most of it the State would find it costs them less of their own money. The States have got themselves in a mindset that they must accept federal money no matter what and wind up doing things with that money that no one wanted to do in the first place and the money isn't free because the State must put up matching funds to get it and winds up spending more money than if they had not accepted the Federal money on a project they didn't want or need.
School lunches is the glaringly visible example. With that simple program the states find themselves spending more state money than they would have spent for many rules and changes that take education away from the states, degrade education and produce NOTHING useful at all.
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01/15/2014 10:18:19 AM PST
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arthurus
(Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson ONLINEhttp://steshaw.org/economics-in-one-lesson/)
To: Principled
The Constitution prohibits the direct taxation of states.................
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01/15/2014 10:19:10 AM PST
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Red Badger
(Proud member of the Zeta Omicron Tau Fraternity since 2004...................)
To: arthurus
ALL the states are in competition with each other for federal money. What is not given to SC would be quickly divvied up by the other states thru their reps and Senators. They become like drug starved junkies getting their next fix...................
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01/15/2014 10:22:09 AM PST
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Red Badger
(Proud member of the Zeta Omicron Tau Fraternity since 2004...................)
To: Red Badger
The Constitution prohibits the direct taxation of states...Not true. The Constitution permits the federal government to dun the states for a share of federal revenue based on population. However, this was not used because the courts ruled during the first half of the 19th Century that there was no enforcement mechanism. Thus the federal government used excises and imposts instead. Then the 16th Amendment changed everything by permitting the federal government to tax people directly.
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01/15/2014 10:24:04 AM PST
by
Publius
("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill and Publius now available at Amazon.)
To: Red Badger
i just mean they act as middle man/tax collector. So the feds would not be taxing states - they’d be taxing individuals.
Such individuals, for convenience, would just send one check. State keeps their part and sends the fed portion on. Or withholds it in escrow until 0bamacare is repealed...
;)
I can dream man, I can dream!
To: Din Maker
Sounds great. Hope other States follow suit.
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