From the Tenth Amendment Center:

Will Florida Ban National Health Care?

In response to what some opponents see as a Congress that doesn’t represent their interests, State Legislators are looking to the nearly-forgotten American political tradition of nullification as a way to reject any potential national health care program that may be coming from Washington.

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HJR37 would deny the ability of any new law to impose demands, restrictions or penalties on health care choices on Floridians. Versions of proposed federal health care reform legislation have included insurance coverage mandates, and certain penalties on employers who fail to provide employee health insurance.

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A similar measure, called the Health Care Freedom Act, has already passed in Arizona, and residents of that state will have the opportunity to vote on it in 2010. Sources close to the Tenth Amendment Center say that more than ten other states may see such proposals introduced in the coming session.

This is pretty interesting to me. I wonder if the states will be successful in nullifying national health care or the public option or whatever newspeak name it has. If the states can break away from the federal government in this way, in what other ways might they exercise their sovereignty?

How about a state passing a law that says no resident of that state has to pay federal income taxes, social security, or medicare taxes? That would be a very interesting development.

Brian and I were chatting this morning about how much our government sucks. We both agreed that it doesn't make sense that most bills introduced to congress are hundreds of pages long when our country was founded basically on one oversize sheet of parchment. Here's the Constitution and Bill of Rights. If you print that off, it's 17 pages; 7,679 words.

There should be a law that all bills introduced and passed into law can't exceed that length.

Lawmakers, if this great country can be founded in 7,679 words then 7,679 words should be more than enough to explain your law and it's parameters. If you can not do that then you have failed as a law maker.