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Why conservatives are loving ObamaCare
After suing ObamaCare for forcing them to cram more people into financially-challenged Medicaid programs, six fiscally-conservative Republican governors recently voluntarily agreed to extend these programs. Reason Foundation Senior Analyst Shikha Dalmia notes in her morning Washington Examiner column that this is because ObamaCare’s perverse incentives has states in a vise: “Noncompliant states face a double whammy — lose federal money and expose their businesses to additional taxes.”
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That is why it should be up to the states.
BigGator5 on February 16, 2013 at 11:34 AM
Blackmail. Pure Blackmail.
cntrlfrk on February 16, 2013 at 11:36 AM
BS. Pure BS.
bgibbs1000 on February 16, 2013 at 11:52 AM
Of course it’s blackmail. So is Title IX for equality in women’s athleticsand Title I for federal education monies. So was the double nickel speed limit. Anytime a state or locality or state institution accepts federal dollars there will ALWAYS be a proviso to follow federal command or risk losing the dolars you’ve become addicted to.Here SCOTUS said the states cannot be docked Medicaid funds to which thry are already entitled but the possible loss of business to other states is a result not to be trifled with.
xkaydet65 on February 16, 2013 at 11:52 AM
Your observations are keen. However, at some point, the states’ status as serfs/slaves is confirmed. I would say that six of them have already admitted that their states’ citizens are now federal subjects and have no inherent right to be free.
We need to shame these people. Relentlessly.
platypus on February 16, 2013 at 12:01 PM
How does blackmail equate to “loving” Obamacare? That’s like saying prisoners love prison because they don’t leave until kicked out.
jnelchef on February 16, 2013 at 12:02 PM
If they love Obamacare, they have ceased to become conservative.
Wethal on February 16, 2013 at 12:11 PM
This. I suspect ♥ing should be in quotation marks.
CW on February 16, 2013 at 12:13 PM
If they love Obamacare, they have ceased to become conservative.
Wethal on February 16, 2013 at 12:11 PM
I think the point of the article is they are almost forced into it.
I already wrote Kasich and told him he still should have rejected it. We are stuck.
CW on February 16, 2013 at 12:18 PM
Prisoners did something wrong to get into prison. The people are doing something wrong to get into their serfdom prison too. Blackmail is no excuse.
Tripwhipper on February 16, 2013 at 12:18 PM
Always count on the Rs to betray you.
Schadenfreude on February 16, 2013 at 12:20 PM
From the Examiner commentary:
CW on February 16, 2013 at 12:22 PM
Repeal is the only answer. Not replace like Mitt wanted but outright repeal of the entire law.
unseen on February 16, 2013 at 1:25 PM
ObamaCare’s perverse incentives has states in a vise: “Noncompliant states face a double whammy — lose federal money and expose their businesses to additional taxes.”
Democrats play to win and they play for keeps while the Republicans just want to get along with their buddies in the Democrat Party.
RJL on February 16, 2013 at 2:20 PM
The Anne Barnhardt response is the only solution. She’s started her own tax-revolt. We’re way past working within the political system. Obamacare guarantees a Big Government future for the Unites States, and our political establishment has proven they’ve lost the will to resist this.
If enough people stop complying with un-Constitutional diktat then what can they do?
sartana on February 16, 2013 at 4:49 PM