another article on states rights and health care mandates...

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   SparklingJewelposted 15 years ago

   "Idaho requires its attorney general to sue the feds if ObamaCare passes while Virginia, the cradle of liberty, heads the line of states in front of the federal courtroom. Somewhere Patrick Henry is smiling. As the second coming of King George III seeks to impose the leftist mandate of national health insurance on the unwilling American people, the states are once again in revolt. This time they're unwilling to be the colonies of an imperial federal government determined to spend and tax us into bankruptcy while treating the Constitution as if it were bird cage liner. Is this what the Founding Fathers had in mind when they risked being hanged by the British crown because they said we shouldn't be taxed without representation? Well, we have representation, and they care not about the people they represent. ... Not amused is Idaho, the latest state to jump into the fray last Wednesday, with Gov. C.L. 'Butch' Otter signing into law a measure requiring the state attorney general to sue the federal government if residents are forced to buy health insurance. 'The ivory tower folks will tell you, 'No, they're not going anywhere,' Otter told reporters. 'But I'll tell you what, you got 36 states; that's a critical mass. That's a constitutional mass.' Otter shares the belief that nowhere in the U.S. Constitution is a mandate to buy health insurance or anything else. ... He believes in the 10th Amendment, in states' rights as defined in the Constitution. All powers not specifically given to the federal government belong to the states and to the people. Mandating health insurance is not one of them. Some would say these states are stepping on Superman's cape, that federal law trumps state law. Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli says that's true only when the federal law has some basis in the Constitution and is not in itself unconstitutional." --Investor's Business Daily

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   Michael Willisposted 15 years ago

   Arkansas Attorney General's response to a reporter when asked if the "Mandate to purchase Health Care Insurance or be fined" is Constitutional was..."Congress has the right to raise taxes!"
   
   Yes Congress can raise taxes. Our AG is in need of understanding the question asked him. This was not a tax hike by Congress by the Law, it was a Law to buy something! Be fined for not buying.

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   Poppa Bluesposted 15 years ago

   The real question is, should the Supreme Court, essentially the federal government, be the arbiter of what's constitutional since the very existence of the federal government is a result of a compact between the states?
   
   In my opinion, the States have the right to unilaterally nullify the health care bill as unconstitutional and an encroachment of federal power upon State's rights.

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   Greek Oneposted 15 years ago

   I'm not a constitutional lawyer (God forbid I was a lawyer of any kind)... but wasn't this whole state's rights thing settled back in 1865?

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      Madame Xposted 15 years agoin reply to this

      Yes, it was. To the detriment of state's rights.

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