Pissing In The Same Pot

[Flanders]

Contact lens customers represent 40 million votes up for grabs. Commonsense should pit them against the parasite class; i.e. Sanders and Clinton. So I’d like to hear the views on crony politics from REPUBLICAN Donald Trump the Businessman:

An estimated 40 million Americans wear contact lenses. That’s a $4 billion industry. Thanks to the heavy-handed government regulation of all things health care, contacts already cost more than they should. However, if an ongoing effort to reduce competition through government cronyism were to succeed, costs might soon rise even more.

A Clear-Eyed View of the Contact Lens Debate
A crony Republican-led effort to make consumers pay more for less.
By Veronique de Rugy – 4.14.16

A Clear-Eyed View of the Contact Lens Debate​

The details in the above article must have originated with Steny Hoyer:

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said that the individual health insurance mandates included in every health reform bill, which require Americans to have insurance, were “like paying taxes.” He added that Congress has “broad authority” to force Americans to purchase other things as well, so long as it was trying to promote “the general welfare.”​

REPUBLICAN Senator Bill Cassidy’s bill ——The Contact Lens Consumer Health Protection Act of 2016 —— exposes the bipartisan liars:

Hoyer said. “The end that we’re trying to effect is to make health care affordable, so I think clearly this is within our constitutional responsibility.”​

Hoyer Says Constitution’s ‘General Welfare’ Clause Empowers Congress to Order Americans to Buy Health Insurance
October 21, 2009
By Matt COVER

Hoyer Says Constitution’s ‘General Welfare’ Clause Empowers Congress to Order Americans to Buy Health Insurance​

Finally, the price of piss pots is the one item that bipartisan liars never raise.

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[Sun Devil 92]

Hoyer is a moron.

It's unfortunate that we'd have an elected representative at the federal level who has no clue about what the General Welfare Clause means.

I mean....even High Schoolers know better than that.

 

[Sun Devil 92]

The General Welfare Clause

The limits on federal power to legislate for the "general welfare" remains, to this date, undefined and presumably, boundless The question that begs an answer is, "if the framers of our Constitution, who labored so resolutely in Philadelphia that torridly hot summer in 1787 intended the powers of Congress to have no boundaries, why did they bother to enumerate seventeen?" James Madison, when asked if the "general welfare" clause was a grant of power, replied in 1792, in a letter to Henry Lee, [13] If not only the means but the objects are unlimited, the parchment [the Constitution] should be thrown into the fire at once.

And we can further ask how it is that anyone thinks that we would swing from one end of the spectrum (the Articles of Confederation) to the near monarchy (Adams and Co. seemed to desire) in one fell swoop.

The federalists papers were not written to tell the people of New York that this constitution wasn't strong enough in it's centralization of powers...they were written to assauge concerns about to much authority in the federal government.

 

[Sun Devil 92]

I guess we buried Hoyer pretty quickly.