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“There are limited powers the federal government has. Simply because of the supremacy clause, it doesn’t mean anything that the Congress does, in fact, must be enforced at all levels of government in the United States,” Marshall said in an interview after his bill won passage.
“It gives the state of Virginia the right to intervene on behalf of individuals should they decide not to pay for insurance and they refuse to pay the fine or they refuse to pay the fee or the tax or whatever you call it,” he said.
More distressing for Virginia Democrats was that 21 of their 39 delegates in the 100-member House sided with the GOP in defying the initiative that is their party’s national priority.
There was no immediate response to a telephone message seeking comment from former Gov. Timothy M. Kaine, now chairman of the Democratic National Committee.
DNC spokesman Alec Gerlach said Virginia’s legislation only burdens middle-income families struggling to pay insurance premiums and medical bills, adding “they’ll have to answer to those folks on election day.”
“It’s a rejection of the federal role in the provision of health care and an extension of the old idea of interposition,” said Del. James M. Scott, D-Fairfax. He was referring to a discredited legal theory that the state had a right to interpose itself to shield residents from some federal directives.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Va-OKs-1st-bill-banning-apf-3243504353.html?x=0&.v=2
It seems like mandatory health insurance is like taxing you for simply existing.