Grasp this, Statist;
“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”
— Amendment 10
The Tenth Amendment expresses the principle that undergirds the entire plan of the original Constitution: the national government possesses only those powers delegated to it. The Framers of the Tenth Amendment had two purposes in mind when they drafted it. The first was a necessary rule of construction. The second was to reaffirm the nature of the federal system.
Okay, then you can’t think of a single thing you wouldn’t want your state government to do. I can think of plenty of things I wouldn’t want my state government to do.
One of those things, would be to set up a government run health care system.
And by the way, just for the record, looking to any level of government to solve these types of problems, is Statist in nature.
Your read of the Tenth Amendment, convinces you that our Founding Fathers wouldn’t have any problem with anything a state decided to do, just so long as it wasn’t the federal government doing it.
WRONG!
Statism
noun
1. the principle or policy of concentrating extensive economic, political, and related controls in the state at the cost of individual liberty.
Federal or state run health care is this very thing. It is a statist effort.
Remember when Reagan reminded us what the nine most fearful words in the English language were?
“I’m from the government, and I’m here to help.”
That applies to states too.