Posted on 02/03/2010 9:13:55 AM PST by Nachum
Breaking with their party and president, five Democrats yesterday helped push through the state Senate a Republican measure allowing Virginians to just say no to compulsory health insurance.
Voting 23-17, the Democratic-controlled Senate approved three identical proposals -- Senate Bills 283, 311 and 417 -- making it illegal to require residents to purchase health-care coverage. Similar bills are under consideration in the Republican-dominated House.
Virginia joins a growing number of states -- at least 30, according to The Associated Press -- where legislators are debating proposals that object to government-mandated health-care proposals similar to those being considered by Congress.
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This is stupid- they made it illegal to do something illegal
I agree 100% with them, but it is as bad a gun control laws- criminals will still have guns, even if we make it illegal for them to have a gun when committing a crime
This is just a bunch of mirrors and smoke to keep the ignorant masses to keep voting democrat. These politicians know if a federal government passes a national mandated health insurance these laws will be worthless. This another one of those I was against it before I was for it moments, the only exception is these State level politicians won’t be voting for the real package they hope gets passed on the National level.
Nice to see Democrats fighting Mitt Romney/Hillary/Obama style state fascism/corporatism.
Hey, I’ll take more liberty from any source.
Ahh, how refreshing to see a little common sense in the fine commonwealth of Virginia.
They are fighting back against the Communist front in the Obama Administration.
The problem is that they cannot make it illegal for the federal government to collect the increased taxes. So you don’t have to have the insurance but you still pay for it. How many people will then say “Since I am paying for it I should get something out of it”?
I hope this inspires a lawsuit that will go to SCOTUS and vacate the Individual Mandate in MA.
Socialized Med Thread
Yeppers. They are a bunch of cornswallowed yellowbellied lillylivered horse thieves if’n I evar saw ‘un.
They’s sure is. We use to know what to do with horse thieves.
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