Posted on 11/10/2015 3:02:47 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
In fact, state sovereignty-respecting, socialist Justice Louis Brandeis had noted that the states, not the federal government, are laboratories of democracy.
Laboratories of democracy
But even if Colorado legal majority voters decide to adopt universal healthcare, there remains a problem. More specifically, state lawmakers need to stop corrupt Congress from appropriating taxes for INTRAstate healthcare purposes since the states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate, tax and spend for state healthcare programs.
In fact, a previous generation of state sovereignty-respecting justices had put it this way about 10th Amendment-protected state healthcare programs.
”State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress. [emphases added]” Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
Also consider that questions concerning the constitutionality of Obamacare should never have made it to the Supreme Court imo. More specifically, the Founding States had established the federal Senate to protect the interests of the states in Congress. So the Senate should have killed the Obamacare bill since it not only stole 10th Amendment-protected state power to regulate healthcare, but it also steals state revenues uniquely associated with such powers.
The reason that the corrupt, post-17th Amendment Senate wrongly passed the Obamacare bill is because the Senate is no longer doing its job to protect the states as it should be doing.
In fact, note that the Senate also wrongly ignored its Article V requirement to lead Congress to successfully petition the states for a healthcare amendment to the constitution before it passed the bill to establish Obamacare.
The ill-conceived 17th Amendment needs to disappear, and corrupt senators who wrongly help the House to pass unconstitutional appropriations bills like Obamacare along with it.
Age old problem, demand will exceed supply causing various ‘limitations’ on procedures offered, increased waiting times, so on and so forth.
Let there be coattails!
While they’re at it, but a gun control measure on the ballot.
Vermont already tried going that route and backed off when they determined that they do not have enough rich folk to pay for it.That the voting populace using it would have to pay for it. Liberals do not like programs that they have to pay for themselves through higher taxes.
Weeks before the vote the “Yes” campaign will somehow arrange a massive sale on pot which,of course,would put voters in a good frame of mind.
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Don't be fooled. This isn't exactly embracing federalism. Otherwise, CO would have done this years ago.
Obamacare was intentionally designed to fail so that single-payer can take its place. If this doesn't pass, then proponents will take it to the next level and ask for the federal government to intervene. If it does pass, then other states will get bullied to pass single-payer as well.
Wow... free health care, free weed!
Yippee!
Q. Who pays for it, though?
Would ObaMao even allow this? Once it is under state control, the Commies in Denver, not the Commies in DC will be calling the shots.
Good point. I think you’re right.
They could have a 10th Amendment/States Rights battle. LOL
I too live in Colorado. Boulderites are stupidly communistic yet they do not smell badly. Boulder percentage wise is the most college educated town in the USA. They are physically clean. It is just that they are disconnected from reality.
And this will attract even more liberal freeloaders to Colorado to vote in future elections!
“Their sky-high premiums and skimpy network coverage is going to be an issue.”
When there only one payer there will be no networks.
Umm, no...
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