Posted on 12/20/2009 6:39:26 AM PST by PJ-Comix
Can ObamaCare (if passed) subsequently be undone by legislation passed later? After all, it doesn't go into effect until 2014 although the public will be heavily taxed for it much earlier. The Prohibition Amendment was later undone by a later Amendment and this is legislation we are talking about.
I recently read that the WORST thing that could happen for the Democrats is to pass ObamaCare. This is sure to be an issue in the 2012 election. Could another president, along with a conservative congress, undo ObamaCare?
They have sown the seeds for their political and possible physical destruction.
Alas, no. Like gun control bills, socialism goes only one way. Once enacted, it cannot be repealed.
Hey, hey, BHO.....!
Where did all your spending go?
Even if Congress were to repeal it, the damage would be done. Once this goes into effect, the private insurers will cease to exist, and if you repeal it at that point, you’ll have no insurance at all.
We have a chance to reverse it, but I really don't expect the current batch of Republicans, even if they get a majority, to do it. We need Congressmen with a much stronger spine and willingness to fight than the current batch.
Does anyone have any idea what this Bill will cost a small business?
That’s just not true. I admit it will take huge will power, but we CAN do it. Why? Because although the taxes begin immediately, the “benefits” do not begin until 2013. That gives us two election cycles to vote in a conservative Congress and president. I know . . . this is HARD. But we must each commit to helping elect conservatives in our states/districts.
And I mean we commit with time and MONEY.
I want a leader to step forward. THIS is the time, Sarah Palin. Step up and lead us on a platform of “Repeal this bill.”
It IS hard, but we CAN do it. Please join this fight.
Think Paris, 1793-1794.
but what if they ram amnesty through to 30 million illegals by november?
it is like having the jacobins from french revolution in charge.
Look - get this through all heads: national elections from now on will be irrelevant. Once they pass their Amnesty Bill (and it will pass) they will create a huge Democrat Voting Block in perpetuity. I keep hearing Limbuagh, Hannity and Levin keep babbling on about “the 2010 Elections in November”, As though that’s the last life line America (as it used to be) has. Well these geniuses ought to know the current power lusters holding the wheels of government know that too. They fully understand they are outnumbered. And they know exactly how they’ll remedy that: Amnesty for all current illegals and instant chain migration for their “familias”. Forget it. America is now “AmeriKa”. An McCain is right: there is nothing we can do about it to stop what’s happening.
Until there is more than the usual country club frat boy opposition to a Democratic party that plays politics like a barroom brawl, We the People will continue to take it the groin.
I look at it this way, its like a stuck traffic light, when one person finally decides to drive through the red light then everyone else will.
They will pass this and soon enough people will find a way to work around it and within short time America will all be organized on ignoring it just like the figurative stuck red traffic signal.
And that is the whole idea. Look at how hard the GOP tried to defend the $500 billion the Democrats wanted to cut.
Yes it can be undone. Most likely, it will require a majority in the house, at least a majority and likely a super majority in the Senate, and a GOP President.
The Dems know it will be difficult to establish such an overwhelming majority and that is why they are willing to sell their souls to put it in place.
of course it can be reversed::
“ All Laws,Statutes, and Regulations passed into Law by the Previous Congress, are hereby Rescinded, Null and Void. All Monies Collected as a result of said Laws to be returned Forthwith. All persons Who Enacted said Unjust and Unconstitutional Laws Shall be Immediately Arrested and held for TREASON AGAINST THE UNITED STATES, All Assets of those Arrested Shall Be SEIZED Immediately.”
When they try to ram in illegals is when CW 2 starts.
Republicans never undo anything. All they ever do is play defense. A sure strategy for failure.
You mean like refusal to pay for the insurance mandate?
Except they won’t be “illegal” then.
There is a reason why the taxes come first. Just like Social Security and Medicare, people will pay for years for this ‘health benefit’ before they can get it. After a few years for paying for ‘their’ health care, they will want what they paid for, they earned it. It will be as hard to get rid of as SS and Medicare. Because people have already paid into those traps, they believe they have a right to what they paid for. It will become a new ‘third rail.’
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