Posted on 03/15/2010 11:13:15 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA
RICHMOND -- Virginia's General Assembly is the first in the nation to approve legislation that bucks federal health care reforms by banning mandatory health insurance coverage.
Without debate, the House of Delegates voted 80-17 Wednesday to accept Senate amendments to a bill that supporters say preserves Virginia's prerogatives as a state.
Thirty-four other legislatures have filed or proposed similar measures rejecting health insurance mandates.
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God bless the Founding Fathers.
Well the ground is being prepared for the next battle in this cold war...a thank you to Virginia!
Doesnt federal law trump state law?
Well done, Virginia.
Mr. Jefferson would be proud of his Virginia today!
We may find out. Again.
34 states? Time to move on this with a Constitutional amendment.
“Doesnt federal law trump state law?”
I thought so. If nothing else, the feds will blackmail states by not giving them road money, medicare/medicaid money, etc. It won’t be long and they will fold.
The 5th amendment bans coercion to enter into contracts by the government.
I think this creates a legal conundrum that can only be worked out in the courts. It gives the states status to sue the feds over unconstitutional reach of power into state affairs where they can further challenge the constitutionality of the legislation itself.
But didn’t they vote to dip into the Virginia retirement system funds??????
“[Supreme Court Chief Justice] John Marshall has made his decision, now let him enforce it!” - Andrew Jackson
I’m expecting something similar. Who is willing to push harder?
Awesome, I think my state will follow suit shortly, though I wonder, this won’t keep us from absorbing the tax burden from the feds will it?
Only in those areas enumerated in Article 1, Section 8:
Powers of CongressAs you can see, the regulation or the providing of health care is not one of the enumerated powers.The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
To borrow money on the credit of the United States;
To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;
To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States;
To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures;
To provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting the Securities and current Coin of the United States;
To establish Post Offices and Post Roads;
To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;
To constitute Tribunals inferior to the supreme Court;
To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offenses against the Law of Nations;
To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;
To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years;
To provide and maintain a Navy;
To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces;
To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;
To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;
To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of particular States, and the acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings; And
To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.
Nice!
Apparently, the Virginia Legislature "knows" the nature of "ambition" and approaching tyranny, and it is prepared to "defeat its purposes."
Excellent, if I could I would pack my bags right now!!
They can’t legally without money for roads and highways, that is part of appropriations, which is what VA residents pay income tax for.
“As you can see, the regulation or the providing of health care is not one of the enumerated powers. “
Which of course hasn’t stopped the courts in the past.
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