tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9017474402534336131.post2870410000175062810..comments2023-12-29T19:51:58.467-05:00Comments on Right Handed Pitcher: Exposing the Most Touted Lie in the Health Care DebateAureliushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16201826632699676283noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9017474402534336131.post-36306239066891427432009-08-16T20:24:43.684-04:002009-08-16T20:24:43.684-04:00Regardless of all the lies that Obama and Congress...Regardless of all the lies that Obama and Congress are telling us concerning Obamacare, don't overlook the biggest problem associated with Obamacare, IMO. The biggest problem is, that given the federal Constitution is silent about public healthcare, the 10th A. automatically reserves government power to regulate healthcare to the states, not the Oval Office and Congress.<br /><br />In fact, Chief Justice Marshall had established the following case precedent, now wrongly ignored, which appropriately limits the power of the feds to lay taxes.<br /><br />"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States." --Chief Justice Marshall, <a href="http://supreme.justia.com/us/22/1/case.html" rel="nofollow">GIBBONS V. OGDEN (1824)</a><br /><br />So not only is Obamacare being based on constitutionally nonexistent federal government power, power that the corrupt federal government is wrongly usurping from the states, but the feds never had the power to lay taxes to fund Obamacare in the first place. Same problems with the Stimulus Package.<br /><br />Sadly, the following link should help people to understand how state sovereignty ignorant voters have shot themselves in the foot with big, corrupt federal government.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?t=199792" rel="nofollow">The 16th & 17th Amendments and the big, corrupt fed. gov.</a>B. Johnsonnoreply@blogger.com