Massachusetts Health care is as illegal as Arizona’s law on illegals

On 8/10/2010 3:52 PM, Lamont Cranston wrote:
> On 8/10/2010 9:03 AM, Beam Me Up Scotty wrote:
>> If Obama and the Federal government have power from the constitution to
>> force people to buy Health Insurance, then HOW IS IT that Massachusetts
>> can have a STATE LAW THAT FORCES THEIR PEOPLE TO BUY HEALTH INSURANCE…
>
> It was in place before the federal law.
>
>>
>> Just like Obama and Arizona are fighting over the immigration laws
>> jurisdiction, the Massachusetts law must also be unconstitutional as the
>> Judge has ruled in Arizona immigration. Where the Federal Government has
>> power the States have no power to make laws.
>
> Untrue, of course. Federal laws trump state laws, but in the absence of
> a federal law, a state is free to enact its own.
>
>
> The federal government has been forcing people to buy two products for
> many, many years: old-age, survivors, and disability insurance and
> Medicare.
I’m NOT buying either one, I choose not to work.