Quantum Windbag
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Why should people not be able to make rules governing behavior? That's the entire basis of civilization. Your proposal would result in no requirements whatsoever. Why should the narrow interest of de facto slave state dictate policy to 300 million plus Americans?
That's exactly what the obama healthcare "plan" does. It represents a very narrow interest that wants to go way beyond just dictating policy. It seeks to control every aspect of healthcare in this country. So, why should your narrow interest trump someone else's?
A bill that passed by the majority of the people's elected representatives in one chamber, a super-majority of them in another, and signed by a president who was elected in a landslide is a "very narrow interest"? Would it have needed 100% of the vote for you to consider it legitimate?
It would need at least a majority of the actual people to support it, not just the ones that are representing them. Unless, that is, you think SCOTUS was wrong when it struck down Bush era law that actually had bipartisan support in Congress.
Or is that just different, somehow?