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Well, let's see....we have employers shifting people to part time, and yet
more employers cutting the hours of their part timers so that in the end
they won't have to provide them with medical insurance. Then despite this
reduction in their income these people now MUST buy medical insurance they
can't afford or be hit with a massive punitive tax.
Oh, but you say that's ok the 'government' (read as the American tax payer)
must now pick up the tax resulting in yet MORE taxation on them.
Sorry, but I'm not seeing the good in this, but rather a lot of people being
shoved further down the economic ladder buy either having their income
slashed, or having it taken away to feed the increasing spending appetite of
the government.
��[T]he government of the United States is a definite government, confined
to specified objects. It is not like the state governments, whose powers are
more general. Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government.�
-James Madison
�To take from one, because it is thought his own industry and that of his
fathers has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose
fathers, have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate
arbitrarily the first principle of association, the guarantee to everyone
the free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it.�
-Thomas Jefferson, letter to Joseph Milligan, April 6, 1816
�When all government, domestic and foreign, in little as in great things,
shall be drawn to Washington as the center of all power, it will render
powerless the checks provided of one government on another and will become
as venal and oppressive as the government from which we separated.�
-Thomas Jefferson to Charles Hammond, 1821. The Writings of Thomas
Jefferson, (Memorial Edition) Lipscomb and Bergh, editors, ME 15:332
In 1794, when Congress appropriated $15,000 for relief of French refugees
who fled from insurrection in San Domingo to Baltimore and Philadelphia,
James Madison stood on the floor of the House to object saying, �I cannot
undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted
a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of
their constituents.�
-James Madison, 4 Annals of congress 179 (1794)
�If Congress can do whatever in their discretion can be done by money, and
will promote the general welfare, the government is no longer a limited one
possessing enumerated powers, but an indefinite one subject to particular
exceptions.� James Madison, �Letter to Edmund Pendleton,�
-James Madison, January 21, 1792, in The Papers of James Madison, vol. 14,
Robert A Rutland et. al., ed (Charlottesvile: University Press of
Virginia,1984).
No, sir, I don't see the good here. Care to show it to me?