I’m a huge supporter of the President, but I disagree with him on this one.
Conservative litmus tests:
1. Does this law create more freedom or less freedom?
2. Does this law force one person to pay for another person (i.e., less freedom for the responsible payer)?
0vomitcare fails both tests and so does Ryancare.
“Conservative litmus tests:
1. Does this law create more freedom or less freedom?
2. Does this law force one person to pay for another person (i.e., less freedom for the responsible payer)?”
How then do you judge the GOP bill repealing the Obama regulation preventing internet service providers from selling the browsing history and identities of their customers? 1) It creates more freedom for the corporations selling internet services (the Supreme Court ruled corporations are people in Citizens United) while at the same time it infringes on an individual breathing person’s 4th amendment right to privacy.
2) The customer of the ISP (the individual citizen) pays for the service yet has no right to privacy with respect to his use of the service. The ISP can generate revenue selling information about the customer.
While the president has not yet signed the repeal of the Obama privacy order, the White House has signaled he will. In this case freedom of the corporation wins, and freedom for the individual loses.