Page 309 - Beers With Our Founding Fathers

A Patriot’s view of the history and direction of our Country

healthcare law is unconstitutional. It requires every person in our

Country to be covered by medical insurance. Presently this is first
placed on the employer, followed by the states for those not

covered, and followed by the federal government. The discussion of
required employer based coverage is covered in detail shortly. As to

the states, the issue is extortion and states’ rights. The issue of
federal extortion of states is covered under the taxation chapter.

However briefly, although states can choose to opt out of certain
program requirements, there is a loss of federal funding involved,

not directly related to the specific sub-programs opted out of in the
federal mandate and the states are reserving under their states’

rights mandate. In addition, as has become the recent historic norm
for decades – federal government is deciding where the states fall

short, such as this healthcare ‘right’ and is developing state and
federal programs without the direction and approval of the states.

The converse of this, in which the federal government is failing to
enforce federal law at the request of the states, such as illegal

immigration activities, forces the states to enact their own laws and
programs – only to be conversely challenged by the federal

government not as a state right and exclusive to the federal
government.

I also submit that this law is unconstitutional because it provides
for fees, fines and penalties for non-compliance. These will be

enforced by the Internal Revenue Service, which makes each of

these a tax, although ‘labeled’ differently (as provided for by
aforementioned case precedents). The penalties and fines are
punishment for non-compliance, and under this law is imposed

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