What say you?
Interesting. I would send it to Ken Cucinelli’s and McCollum’s offices and maybe the other AGs.
We all need to keep thinking.
Why did you get moved to “Bloggers”???
Good points.
There was an article about how much it will costs some states, that are already teetering on the brink of bankruptcy — this new law will bankrupt the Federal government and the states.
Ping
How can the gov’t force people to buy and sell?who’s going to stop them?.
You think too logically! Pretzel logic liberals who say the constitution is so flexible that it must change all the time and be interepreted fluidly solved this problem years ago. You see, by not engaging in commerce, you are withholding commerce, and hence affecting commerce as a whole. Thus the government can regulate anything they want, whethere there is an actual economic exchange or not.
Ironically, those liberal activists who insist the consitution is flexible and only has whatever meaning is relevant in the moment take the opposite on court precendent. That is rock solid, immutable and unchanging. So this interpretation of the commerce clause is sacred ground for them.
The Obamacare bill is byzantine to say the least and in its bowels are provisions that will conflict with everything from the US Constitution to state statutes. No single bill of nearly 3,000 pages could be understood by anyone let alone thought through. Add to this tens of thousands of pages of implementing regulations that will be needed to make this bill even half functional and you have a mess of a size and scope we can only imagine. We all should be hounding any member of Congress who voted for this. Boo them in public, picket their homes and offices and continue to melt their phones and e-mail systems with protests. The majority of the American people who abhor this bill need to make their voices heard loud and long all the way to November.
Interesting post!