He's off to a good start.
Posted on 12/31/2009 2:32:14 PM PST by reaganaut1
Florida’s attorney general questioned the constitutionality of the federal health care bill on Tuesday, calling on states to study whether to file suit to kill a provision requiring that individuals buy health insurance or pay a fine.
The attorney general, William McCollum, a Republican who is running for governor in 2010, said that the so-called mandate was “an affront to our country’s principles.” He added that the fine might be illegal because, in his view, it is disconnected from any commercial act.
“It’s a tax on living,” Mr. McCollum said in a telephone conference call with reporters. “It’s a tax on people or a penalty on those who don’t do anything.”
Mr. McCollum’s stance places him in line with the attorneys general of South Carolina and nearly a dozen other states who have also threatened to sue over the mandate.
Health care has already become a major dividing line in Florida’s political campaigns ahead of 2010 elections. As if on cue, Democrats responded within minutes of Mr. McCollum’s announcement on Tuesday.
In a Twitter message, State Senator Dan Gelber, a Democrat who is running for attorney general, wrote, “I wish McCollum was as concerned about solving Florida’s health care crisis as he was about stopping the solving of the health care crisis.”
Mr. Gelber later added: “There are four million Floridians without health care, including 800,000 children. Only one state has a higher percentage of uninsured.”
The argument over the mandate’s legality, however, did not necessarily begin with elected officials. Mr. McCollum’s position closely follows what was already laid out by conservative opponents outside government — bloggers, former Justice Department lawyers and research groups.
The Heritage Foundation, for example, posted a lengthy legal analysis on Dec. 9 that argued that Congress had specific, limited powers
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Sheesh, Threatened? He should make up his mind. Get back to me when he files.
Agreed, it has to officially pass before he can file a suit. He better get in line though, lots of people already waiting their turn to file when the doors open.
"There's no comparison whatsoever between being required to buy auto insurance and health insurance. Driving a car is a licensed enterprise and you agree to the requirements. That's not health insurance. The only comparison would be if people were required -- children, the blind, infants -- to buy auto insurance whether they own a car or not."
He's off to a good start.
How many BLUE STATES are filing similar lawuits?
“There are four million Floridians without health care, including 800,000 children. Only one state has a higher percentage of uninsured.”
There are 4 million Floridians who choose not to have health insurance as it is readily available thru cover Florida however it is not inexpensive for the coverage you get. The market provides better coverage at a lower price if you accept exclusion of your preexisting conditions. The uncovered children have stupid parents as Healthy kids is readily available and cheap too unless you are too poor then they give you the same coverage for free under medicaid.
But he has refused to investigate the “pancake” scandal involving the Sun Rail legislation.
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/opinion/os-ed-paula-dockery-122809-20091224,0,4718432.story
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Governor Rick Perry may invoke the 10th Amendment over
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No! NO you don’t, you muzzie pos.
You’re not denying our seniors deserved health care while insuring millions of illegal aliens and while Demorats are REJECTING Obamacare for themselves and their families!
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Dear Governor Perry,
On March 30, 2009 the Texas House of Representatives passed HCR 50 affirming that the State of Texas claims sovereignty under the Tenth Amendment.
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Facts about the 10th Amendment:
The Tenth Amendment (Amendment X) of the United States Constitution, which is part of the Bill of Rights, was ratified on December 15, 1791. The Tenth Amendment restates the Constitution’s principle of Federalism by providing that powers not granted to the national government nor prohibited to the states are reserved to the states or the people.
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REMEMBER THIS,TEXANS:
Feds Have Built Only 32 Miles of 700 Mile Double-Border Fence Originally Mandated by Congress
“One reason DHS has been able to do this is an amendment that Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R.-Texas) slipped into an omnibus appropriations bill that Congress passed on December 18, 2007. Hutchison’s amendment put a loophole in the fence law that allowed the secretary of Homeland Security not to build the fence Congress had mandated the year before.”
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/43422
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