I live in colorado.... can we sell boulder to commie china and give those dirt smelling hippies a taste of what communism is really all about?
I actually have no problem with this.
If individual states decide they want to commit economic suicide, they should have the right to do so.
Good. let the states balkanize. The liberals can go to their enclaves and stave freezing in the dark. With non functional healthcare.
The rest of us will be better for their loss. If you live in liberal territory, leave before they stop allowing you to leave, folks. If your material goods are more a value than your/family, then stay. Can’t have both ways.
AP at Aljazeera!? Really!? WOW!
Didn’t Vermont already fail at this? Round two!
Colorado...you’ll be sorry if you do that!
“Out of the frying pan, and into the fire!”.
“Employees would have a payroll tax of about 3 percent.”
Uh...NO!!!!
IT WOULD BE CLOSER TO 10%!!
3% is simply the LIE TO MAKE THE SALE.
They also neglect to mention that...
THE EMPLOYED PAY FOR ALL OF THE FREELOADERS!!!!
That’s great!
That is what should have happened from the start ... each State make their own health insurance/health care laws.
It’ll pass here.
People are sick of Republicans who promise to get rid of Obamacare and fund it and Democrats who fund it but give us crappy private health insurace.
They simply have no credibility.
If the Constitution were being followed voters cannot vote in laws that violate the Constitution.
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.
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.
Wow... free health care, free weed!
Yippee!
Q. Who pays for it, though?