Dear Governor Otter,
Gem State Tea Party suggests you recommend AGAINST Idaho setting up a health insurance exchange.
We also encourage Idaho State Legislature to defer any authority for Idaho to spend any federal monies for an exchange.
Please stand by the majority of Idahoans and several other states that are ignoring PPACA. Per other states’ discovery, setting up Idaho's own exchange subjects citizens to many anti-liberty sections of PPACA that otherwise are not imposed on citizens if the federal government sets it up.
Do some of the study group members have a personal interest thus ignoring the best interests of the state and country?
Governor, as you so aptly observed in your foreword to Ezra Taft Benson's "The Proper Role of Government": "Politicians, bureaucrats and judges in all branches and at all levels of government are using the law to accomplish incrementally the very ends that our form of government was created to prevent."
PPACA (affectionally known as Obamacare) is just another example of the unending federal quest for power over our lives; exactly what the founding fathers anticipated! It is the option of the state, the duty of the state to intervene. States created the federal government. It is time for states to intervene.
Steve Ackerman, an advisor to Gem State Tea Party, has an excellent treatise on this topic headed your way. It has some innovative, exciting arguments and alternatives. Watch for it in your InBox.
Freedom first!
Chad Inman, President
cc: Mr. David Hensley, Chief of Staff
I think the most important statement of this letter is the point that "It is...the duty of the state to intervene." This should be the most emphasized (in fact, it being a duty negates the idea that it is an option). If we truly believe this (and we have the 10th Amendment on our side in doing so) then whatever the majority believes should be a secondary point in this argument. The Framers of the US Constitution intended to create a cumbersome process for majorities to be able to change the enumerated powers of the federal government. Even if a majority of Idahoans supported Obamacare, the governor, if he is to uphold his oath of office, can only tell them that the US Constitution has to be amended before he can legally enforce such a law.
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