On Romneycare....amazingly it is popular in MA. Voters in MA keep voting for politicians who will keep it. I have zero problem with any state passing anything their residents want. One can always move to another state, like I moved out of Illinois. Federal laws are one size fits all, and must be opposed whenever possible.
As for my kids, they have decided they do not like Obama, so they will do the same thing I am doing, register a vote against Obama and for whoever his opponent is.
That is why we’re a republic, not a democracy. Politicians have begun competing with each other on which one can hand out the most loot from the treasury to buy votes. That is what will drive our country into oblivion. We desperately need politicians who won’t play that game and sell the people that bill of goods to be paid off later on the backs of their children and grandchildren, or most likely never paid off at all.
I suppose what makes things less onerous at the state level is that they have to balance their budgets. I believe Hawaii passed its own socialized health care and had to repeal it within a year a few years back because it was going to bankrupt them. On the other hand, California is driving itself into massive debt and seems to be counting on an eventual federal bailout. They’re also in that position because so many of their laws are decided by direct democracy as ballot initiatives. We need to elect good leaders who are willing to explain to people why they can’t always have everything they want when they want it.
Doing something at the state level is simply a slippery slope to doing it at the federal level, as Romneycare has already proven. And either way it inculcates the wrong attitude in the minds of the people. Not to mention, it institutionalizes a tyranny of taxation which, while the majority of voters may like it, the minority of people who are coerced into funding it through taxation may not like at all. They may also have businesses rooted in that state which are not easy or perhaps impossible to simply uproot and move.