Idaho GOP gets ready to nullify health care reform, page
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Topic started on 21-1-2011 @ 11:10 AM by centurion1211
Interesting. The concept of states being able to nullify the actions of the federal government goes all the way back to one of the Founders - Thomas Jefferson. Now Idaho and perhaps other states are planning to use this concept to "nullfy" obamacare. And if they succeed with that, what's next - the IRS?

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BOISE, Idaho – After leading the nation last year in passing a law to sue the federal government over the health care overhaul, Idaho's Republican-dominated Legislature now plans to use an obscure 18th century doctrine to declare President Barack Obama's signature bill null and void.

Lawmakers in six other states — Maine, Montana, Oregon, Nebraska, Texas and Wyoming — are also mulling "nullification" bills, which contend states, not the U.S. Supreme Court, are the ultimate arbiter of when Congress and the president run amok.


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If the U.S. president, Congress, and the Supreme Court get it wrong, Woods said, then Jefferson had it right back in 1799 when he wrote that states, as creators of the federal government, "being sovereign and independent, have the unquestionable right to judge of its infraction."



reply posted on 21-1-2011 @ 01:02 PM by marg6043
reply to post by centurion1211



Many people doesn't understand or never understood the monetary burden that Obama care will place on already burdened states.

The so call model for the HCR was Massachusetts, but what many didn't know about Massachusetts is that while Obama was campaigning for the HCR, Massachusetts was talking about how their universal health care was bankrupting the state.

In order to keep using the State as a model for HCR, the federal government funneled money to keep the program working on that State.

Like I say and the article link your provide say, is not going to be long when States will fall bankruptcy and the Federal government will have to bailout because Obama care and is just the beginning.

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