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Posted on 10/21/2009 7:56:56 AM PDT by Sub-Driver

Hoyer Says Constitution’s ‘General Welfare’ Clause Empowers Congress to Order Americans to Buy Health Insurance Wednesday, October 21, 2009 By Matt Cover

(CNSNews.com) – House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said that the individual health insurance mandates included in every health reform bill, which require Americans to have insurance, were “like paying taxes.” He added that Congress has “broad authority” to force Americans to purchase other things as well, so long as it was trying to promote “the general welfare.”

The Congressional Budget Office, however, has stated in the past that a mandate forcing Americans to buy health insurance would be an “unprecedented form of federal action,” and that the “government has never required people to buy any good or service as a condition of lawful residence in the United States.”

Hoyer, speaking to reporters at his weekly press briefing on Tuesday, was asked by CNSNews.com where in the Constitution was Congress granted the power to mandate that a person must by a health insurance policy. Hoyer said that, in providing for the general welfare, Congress had “broad authority.”

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To: Travis McGee

When we pay taxes for police, it is supposedly guaranteed that someone who murders will be tracked down, tried, and put in jail.
When we pay taxes for roads, as long as the roads are built, we get to drive on them.
Insurance is not a guarantee of service. We can pay for insurance and have the claim denied. Insurance is not payment for a service, so it isn’t equivalent to taxes, where the services (safety, security, education, protection) are supposed to be guaranteed.


161 posted on 10/21/2009 8:08:00 PM PDT by tbw2 (Freeper sci-fi - "Humanity's Edge" - on amazon.com)
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To: Sub-Driver; Abundy; Albion Wilde; AlwaysFree; AnnaSASsyFR; bayliving; BFM; cindy-true-supporter; ...

As I understand it, at least one of the founders said that the “general welfare” clause was only meant to cover the various provisions in Article I, Section 8. Steny has completely inverted that idea, it appears.

Maryland “Freak State” PING!


162 posted on 10/21/2009 8:20:30 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Barack Hussein Obama: the country's greatest firearms salesman!)
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To: Sub-Driver
Right! General Welfare! What they want to do is enslave all Americans into a welfare state. These guys are unbelievable. Next we will be hearing that they need to seize all private assets to pay for this General Welfare. Starting to sound a lot like Venezuela.

Of course they keep voting themselves pay raises every year and only working 2.5 days a week. I guess they will be raising our tax rates for their General Welfare.

163 posted on 10/21/2009 8:21:49 PM PDT by reader25
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To: Sub-Driver

It’s amazing how much power the Founders failed to realize they had with what they’d written.

What dunces they must’ve been.


164 posted on 10/21/2009 8:30:22 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
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To: Sub-Driver

He’s really hankering for a “townhall” ....with Tar and Feathers....


165 posted on 10/21/2009 8:30:55 PM PDT by mo
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To: NY.SS-Bar9

“throw off a rouge government”

Well, it IS rather Red in color...


166 posted on 10/21/2009 8:36:57 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Steny, it says “promote the general welfare”, not “generally promote welfare”.


167 posted on 10/21/2009 8:38:18 PM PDT by RichInOC (No! BAD Rich! (What'd I say?))
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To: Sub-Driver; All
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168 posted on 10/21/2009 9:22:16 PM PDT by FreeKeys ("America's socialists want more control over our lives, property and our pocketbooks." - Walter Wms.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Shove it Steny.


169 posted on 10/21/2009 10:51:00 PM PDT by smokingfrog (No man's life, liberty or property is safe while the legislature is in session. I AM JIM THOMPSON)
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To: Perdogg
"Supreme Court has already ruled that the preamble to the Constitution doesn’t mandate any services."

Not that we needed the Supreme Court to say so.

The Preamble is obviously an explanation as to why to Constitution was drafted and adopted. The Preamble confers no powers at all. The workings and powers of the branches of government are set out in the Articles. If it is not stated in the Articles, it does not exist as a power of one of the branches of government. Period.

170 posted on 10/22/2009 5:30:01 AM PDT by Captain Jack Aubrey (There's not a moment to lose.)
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To: April Lexington

General welfare clause as cause for general warfare?

Not out of the question, I’m afraid.


171 posted on 10/22/2009 7:45:00 AM PDT by ex 98C MI Dude (All of my hate cannot be found, I will not be drowned by your constant scheming)
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To: Sub-Driver

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172 posted on 10/22/2009 10:28:58 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: Sub-Driver

And what about thsoe poor people you claim to support rat? How will they get by?


173 posted on 10/22/2009 10:31:50 AM PDT by mainestategop (MAINE: The way communism should be)
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To: Liz

Bump & bookmark


174 posted on 10/22/2009 11:08:54 AM PDT by EdReform (The right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed *NRA*JPFO*SAF*GOA*SAS*CCRKBA)
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