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I guess President Trump has not yet realized Paul Ryan and a number of other swamp creature Republicans intentionally sabotaged his desire to repeal Obamacare. These swamp creatures have one goal in mind which dominates their thinking . . . never, ever, release the iron grip which they have around the necks of the American people, and they will always work with Democrat swamp creatures to achieve this common goal.
So what is the proper path to follow? President Trump ought to promote a one or two page concept which repeals and replaces Obamacare with nothing! President Trump ought to first declare that in his view and under our federal government’s defined and limited powers, and with respect to the command of the 10th Amendment, all power not delegated to our federal government are reserved to the states and people therein, and that Congress is not authorized to enter the States to tax for, spend on and regulate the people’s decisions and choices regarding their health-care needs.
The one or two page proposal ought to set a specific date, such as January 1st, 2018, when the federal government will no longer enter the States and tax for, spend on nor regulate the people’s decisions and choices regarding their health-care needs.
In addition, this proposal must also stipulate that the federal government will reduce federal taxes, across the board, by the amount now spent on Obamacare and all of its subsidies, leaving that money within the States so each State may have access to these funds in order to deal with their own State’s poor and needy who now rely upon the federal government for their health-care.
This concept of course is very much in harmony with our Constitution and our Founders intentions which are summarized in Federalist No. 45:
“The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite. The former will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation, and foreign commerce; with which last the power of taxation will, for the most part, be connected.
The powers reserved to the several States will extend to all the objects which, in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives, liberties, and properties of the people, and the internal order, improvement, and prosperity of the State.”
And with regard to Congress’ legitimate power to regulate commerce among the states to insure free trade and competition among the States, President Trump ought to demand that Congress repeal the McCarran-Ferguson Act of 1945 which would go a long way to end current price fixing, restraint of interstate trade and commerce, and a monopolizing of the insurance industry within state borders, which has without question allowed the cost of health insurance to skyrocket over the years.
Let us work to return to our founding principles, especially the Tenth Amendment and federalism, our Constitution’s plan.
JWK
"If the Constitution was ratified under the belief, sedulously propagated on all sides, that such protection was afforded [the 10th amendment], would it not now be a fraud upon the whole people to give a different construction to its powers?"___ Justice Story
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