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Originally Posted by Derwood
Where in the Constitution does it say that the Government CAN'T bail out the auto industry?
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I don't see anywhere that prohibits the government from doing this.
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Originally Posted by Derwood
Where in the Constitution does it say that the Government CAN'T implement Universal Health Care?
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I'm going to agree with The_Dundean on this, that the 10th amendment prohibits it. The Constitution does grant the federal government the right to impose taxes, but does not grant the government the right to force people to pay arbitrary fees. Obama has gone to great lengths to claim his mandatory health care payments are not a tax, so Obama loses.
If I remember right, this is the basis for several law suits that the Supreme Court will get to choose from when deciding this.
So now it's your turn. Exactly where does the Constitution prohibit repealing or canceling an entitlement program?
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Originally Posted by Tully Mars
I think , depending on age, SS disability does reviews every 3 yrs. But I could be wrong.
If the tax payers aren't the single payer who would?
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If the government can't figure out how to make it work without the taxpayer paying for it, then forget it. I'm not responsible for other's health care and they are not responsible for mine.
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Originally Posted by Tully Mars
And why single health care out as a non-tax payer funded system? Why not build roads, schools the police, fire and the military as private systems?
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The Constitution specifically directs Congress to maintain an army and a navy. Police, fire dept, schools, etc, I think that's up to the states. I don't see anything in the Constitution that says the federal government must provide them, and the federal government generally doesn't run them.
Roads, and other facilities may as well be private systems. We already at least partly pay for them on a user fee basis with toll roads and gas taxes. Maybe they will be run more efficiently.
Here in NY, one major toll road is the New York State Thruway. God forbid that there's even a bump in the pavement because the next day there will be a squadron of state highway construction trucks out fixing it. There might be six inches of snow on every other road in the state, but there won't be a snowflake to be seen on the Thruway because there's a squadron of snowplows continually circling their assigned region plowing and salting the road to death.
I think the last time the NY Thruway was closed was in 1969, thanks to the Woodstock concert. :-)