By Brant Baumann
On the yearlong course to getting their beloved healthcare reform
passed, Barack Obama and Congressional Democrats didn’t always hear
what they wanted to hear from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
gatekeepers.
But when they finally did on the days leading up
to the historic March 21 vote, they dismissed an important CBO caveat
in order to strike while the iron was hot. Now, hardly to the surprise
of ObamaCare critics like political commentator and former Colorado
Congressman, Bob Beauprez (R), the CBO says the cost is going to be
much higher than originally projected.
So, what was the caveat
back in March? Well, the CBO had an ObamaCare cost estimate, but it
warned that the number did not reflect the inevitable discretionary
spending that comes with implementing new laws. To provide a more
precise figure that would account for such would require more time that
the White House was not willing to sacrifice.
The end result:
Over the next ten years, ObamaCare is now expected to cost about
another $115 billion more than originally estimated, pushing the
suffocating total to well over the $1 trillion mark.
“There’s a
real shock,” says a sarcastic Beauprez, who is all but desensitized to
Washington’s reckless spending. “ObamaCare is going to cost more than
Barack, (House Speaker) Nancy (Pelosi) and (Senate Majority Leader)
Harry (Reid) promised. Worse yet, they’re not done. Wait until the
phantom half-trillion dollars of Medicare cuts never happen. Wait until
the $300 billion cost of the ‘doc fix’ (the Sustainable Growth Rate or
SGR reimbursement) gets added in. And that’s only the beginning.
There’s still more.”
Just how much more? And how long before the
taxpayer really starts feeling the hurt? Could this be the last push
towards an American fate like that of Greece? Is the American majority
that opposed this healthcare behemoth still hot enough under the collar
to share the pain at the polls in November?
Can the opposition really repeal and replace ObamaCare?
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Voters need to know that Chief Justice Marshall establish the following case precedent, now wrongly ignored by both federal and state lawmakers, which applopriately prohibits Congress from laying taxes in the name of state power issues.
“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” –Chief Justice Marshall, GIBBONS V. OGDEN, 1824. http://supreme.justia.com/us/22/1/case.html
In fact, where Obamacare is concerned, note that the USSC has already decided that Congress has no business sticking its big nose into the medical practice.
“Direct control of medical practice in the states is obviously beyond the power of Congress.” –Linder v. United States, 1925. http://supreme.justia.com/us/268/5/case.html
So not only is Obamacare, for example, constitutonally unauthorized as evidenced by the Constitution’s silence on public healthcare, but based on Justice Marshall’s official words, corrupt Congress never had the power to lay taxes to fund Obamacare.
What a mess! :^(
This why voters need to do a “clean install” of their state legislatures as well as Congress in this year’s midterm election. Constitution-impaired state lawmakers have not been doing their jobs to protect citizens from unconstitutional federal government interference in their lives, particularly with respect to illegal federal taxes which are funding Obamacare. (Are you listening bankrupt California?)