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Regardless of what you Socialists from within the US and from foreign counties think about how great "Socialized Medicine" is, do not realize that under the US Constitution the federal government does not have the power, nor the authority to enacts laws and regulations on private insurance companies, nor create a single payer health care system. There is nothing in Article Six, which states the powers of the Federal Government, that says that it has the right to regulate or establish a health care system. According to The Tenth Amendment which states; "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." The States do have the right to if they wanted to establish one within its borders. The Federal Government would have to Amend the Constitution in order to have the power to regulate health care. I bet that most of you, if not all of you, did not realize that every law at the Federal level of government is Unconstitutional! This includes drug laws. Why do you think that in the early 20 century they had to make a constitutional amendment banning alcohol?

when my work is busy i work crazy hours, but i found that i only work 70% of the day, because i figure 70% of the day i work for myself, and the other 30% im working for the Goverment...

why don't we let the free market work and demand more fuel efficient vehicles instead of using compulsion and coercion through laws and regulations set by the government. if you look what happened when the price of gas went up the car companies started building smaller more fuel efficient cars.

look i liked the comments about how you should tax lawnmowers and chainsaws while there at it, but you guys don't get it. stop trying to do the math to figure out which way people should be taxed so it would be cheaper, and people pay way more in taxes then you think, look at all the surcharges on you phone, cable, internet, and pretty much every service you want that you can purchase THEY CAN AND WILL TRY TO TAX TO DEATH, they are taxes, we should focus on reducing federal, state, and local spending, then there would be no need to be taxed as much. you all have to realize that every time the government taxes you in one form of another (income tax, sales tax, surcharges, etc) that they take away your buying power in the economy, and make you only purchase the necessitates that you need just to live, if you had more money to spend with lower taxes you could spend that money on things that are not necessitates to help drive the economy forward. because innovative goods drive the economy not plain just to live goods. taxation is also a for of control, they want to stop you from driving a vehicle that would consume more gas. Just think THE COST TO DRIVE IS NOT ONLY GOING TO GO UP. HOW DO U THINK THESE TRUCKING COMPANIES ARE GOING TO HAVE TO COMPENSATE FOR THE INCREASED COSTS IN THE FOR OF TAXES, THEY WILL RAISE PRICES WHICH IS ALSO A TAX TO YOU!!!!!!!!! and the cost of just NECESSITATES WILL GO UP!!!! you need to stop treating the symptoms and treat the problem of taxation, figure out a way to get rid of them permanently and not play a shuffle game!!