Posted on 10/02/2015 3:38:11 PM PDT by VinL
I think they ought to get rid of the penalty for not having insurance!
Clever. I have personally heard Cruz’s standard stump speech. Repealing Oblecare was a big part of it. No reason to believe that has changed.
Why not just repeal the mandate? Repealing the exemption seems more like a publicity stunt.
Then why does Cruz retreat into the technical issue of Obamacare for congress? I think he gave up!
The wider point is that ALL Politicians need to live by the rules they place upon Us.
Cruz hits the bulls eye IMHO
Seriously? You are smarter than that. One data point in one interview.
It also puts the onus on whoever wants to be speaker to pledge to support it.
Amen, put it on record and hold them to it!
While Cruz is the distinguished constitutionalist among low-information presidential candidates, if he would read Free Republic every once in awhile then he would know the following about unconstitutional Obamacare.
Regardless what Obama’s activist justices want everybody to think about the constitutionality of Obamacare, previous generations of state sovereignty-respecting justices had clarified the following about so-called national healthcare programs. The states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate, tax and spend for INTRAstate healthcare purposes. This is evidenced by the following excerpts from Supreme Court case opinions.
”State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress. [emphases added]” —Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
“Inspection laws, quarantine laws, health laws of every description [emphasis added], as well as laws for regulating the internal commerce of a state and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c., are component parts of this mass.” —Justice Barbour, New York v. Miln., 1837.
”4. The issuing of a policy of insurance is not a transaction of commerce [emphasis added] within the meaning of the latter of the two clauses, even though the parties be domiciled in different States, but is a simple contract of indemnity against loss.” — Paul v. Virginia, 1869. (The corrupt feds have no Commerce Clause (1.8.3) power to regulate insurance.)
“Direct control of medical practice in the states is obviously [emphases added] beyond the power of Congress.” –Linder v. United States, 1925.
What we're seeing with the corrupt, post-17th Amendment ratification Senate is the following. The Senate is not protecting the states as the Founding States had intended for the Senate to do. Instead, the Senate is wrongly helping the House to pass bills which not only steal 10th Amendment-protected states powers, but which also steal state revenues associated with those powers, Obamacare an example.
But what’s even worse is that the Senate confirms activist justices who then declare that the unconstitutinal laws which the Senate helped to pass are constitutional, as they did with Obamacare.
Noting that I’m not talking about Cruz concerning the following, the ill-conceived 17th Amendment needs to disappear, and corrupt senators who confirm activist justices and then refuse to work with the House to remove such justices from the bench when they ignore the Constitution along with it.
We also need to instigate term limits—2 terms, and you’re out!
It was never meant to be a full lifetime job……..
Everybody lies. Sometimes to others. Sometimes to themselves. Cruz isn’t pure, but on this issue I trust him.
As opposed to opportunists that lie to you for profit?
Okay. If Cruz said he would repeal Obamacare, or if Trump said he would repeal Obamacare, who would you believe most? Take a minute before you reply.
Hi Bernie!
Yer a nut.
Thank you.
You do not see that it is critical that elected politicians live by the laws they pass upon us lest the ruling class live by a different standard?
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