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Originally Posted by robot_parade
About 1/3 of your income, if you're relatively well off.
Is that worth it to have clean water, safe food, safe roads and cities, freedom from dictators, thugs, and despots?
Uh...yes?
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I'm middle-class and 1/3 of my income already goes to a variety of state, local, and fed taxes (SSI is a tax).
Regarding your question: I like the whole clean water, safe food, roads and cities thing. I don't get the second part of your statement. We have several new regulatory dictatorships, thugs and shakedown organizations like SEIU, Acorn, The Apollo Alliance, the Center For American Progress, and the brand new IRS Healthcare Gestapo. Which leaves us with the despots... the President, Nancy Pelosi and the US Congress.
Perhaps if the question began with "Let me be clear".
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Originally Posted by Charlatan
Guys... the 10th Amendment is very clearly about the relationship between the Federal Government and the States. It does not state that what has just been done is Unconstitutional.
It does, however, give a place where a state can challenge the federal government to exempt them from the law on a constitutional basis. In other words, this is for the courts to decide.
You have your knickers in a twist over a procedure that applies to nearly every Federal Law enacted and has only been successfully used a handful of times. Jeez. You'd think there were Federal jackboots storming your streets.
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It relates to interstate commerce. Health insurance is not sold across states. It's a reasonable test. I think it would be a healthy exercise.