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Posted on 10/21/2009 7:56:56 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Hoyer Says Constitution’s ‘General Welfare’ Clause Empowers Congress to Order Americans to Buy Health Insurance Wednesday, October 21, 2009 By Matt Cover
(CNSNews.com) – House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said that the individual health insurance mandates included in every health reform bill, which require Americans to have insurance, were “like paying taxes.” He added that Congress has “broad authority” to force Americans to purchase other things as well, so long as it was trying to promote “the general welfare.”
The Congressional Budget Office, however, has stated in the past that a mandate forcing Americans to buy health insurance would be an “unprecedented form of federal action,” and that the “government has never required people to buy any good or service as a condition of lawful residence in the United States.”
Hoyer, speaking to reporters at his weekly press briefing on Tuesday, was asked by CNSNews.com where in the Constitution was Congress granted the power to mandate that a person must by a health insurance policy. Hoyer said that, in providing for the general welfare, Congress had “broad authority.”
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When we pay taxes for police, it is supposedly guaranteed that someone who murders will be tracked down, tried, and put in jail.
When we pay taxes for roads, as long as the roads are built, we get to drive on them.
Insurance is not a guarantee of service. We can pay for insurance and have the claim denied. Insurance is not payment for a service, so it isn’t equivalent to taxes, where the services (safety, security, education, protection) are supposed to be guaranteed.
As I understand it, at least one of the founders said that the “general welfare” clause was only meant to cover the various provisions in Article I, Section 8. Steny has completely inverted that idea, it appears.
Maryland “Freak State” PING!
Of course they keep voting themselves pay raises every year and only working 2.5 days a week. I guess they will be raising our tax rates for their General Welfare.
It’s amazing how much power the Founders failed to realize they had with what they’d written.
What dunces they must’ve been.
He’s really hankering for a “townhall” ....with Tar and Feathers....
“throw off a rouge government”
Well, it IS rather Red in color...
Steny, it says “promote the general welfare”, not “generally promote welfare”.
Shove it Steny.
Not that we needed the Supreme Court to say so.
The Preamble is obviously an explanation as to why to Constitution was drafted and adopted. The Preamble confers no powers at all. The workings and powers of the branches of government are set out in the Articles. If it is not stated in the Articles, it does not exist as a power of one of the branches of government. Period.
General welfare clause as cause for general warfare?
Not out of the question, I’m afraid.
And what about thsoe poor people you claim to support rat? How will they get by?
Bump & bookmark
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