Remember NH's HCR6?
If you cannot remember what it was, NH Representative Dan Itse came on the show to talk about it (promo, podcast) - a resolution to start the "push back" by the State of NH on the actions of an ever increasing Federal Government - it plays into Enumerated Powers clause of the Constitution. I asked Kelly Ayotte about this a while ago at the Belknap County Republican Committee.
However, it may also be an issue in the upcoming Governor's race here in NH. What IS Governor Lynch's stance on this? Does he put the primacy of NH ahead of that of the Feds? Frankly, I don't know if he does or whether he plain cringes at the thought of having to make a decision.
This article in the WSJ won't help him much either:
The more we inspect Max Baucus's health-care bill, the worse it looks. Today's howler: One reason it allegedly "pays for itself" over 10 years is because it would break all 50 state budgets by permanently expanding Medicaid, the joint state-federal program for the poor.
Democrats want to use Medicaid to cover everyone up to at least 133% of the federal poverty level, or about $30,000 for a family of four. Starting in 2014, Mr. Baucus plans to spend $287 billion through 2019—or about one-third of ObamaCare's total spending—to add some 11 million new people to the Medicaid rolls.
About 59 million people are on Medicaid today—which means that a decade from now about a quarter of the total population would be on a program originally sold as help for low-income women, children and the disabled. State budgets would explode—by $37 billion, according to the Congressional Budget Office—because they would no longer be allowed to set eligibility in line with their own decisions about taxes and spending. This is the mother—and father and crazy uncle—of unfunded mandates.
NH is already in a budget dilemma - it looks like the Democrat Leaders in both the House and the Senate are stick it to Lynch again - they are bound and determined to be on the march on putting in a broadbased tax of some kind here in NH (we have neither a sales or an income tax - part of the NH Advantage).
Time after time, Lynch has said that he would veto any such move. Frankly, after his gay marriage integrity FAIL (long time Nopes, voted for it after he was "talked to"), I have no reason to believe him.
This issue, puts him right on the bulls eye again - will he put the machinations of DC in screwing up the NH budget with what will effectively be unfunded mandates and REALLY putting the budget in a hole, or is he going to stand up to the Democrats in DC?
He's also guilty of approving "Stimulus" money that was stuck right into the budget to fill "other holes" - what's he going to do without that AND without the $110 Million JUA fund grab that one judge already said "hands off"!
So, what say you, Guv? You Dems are in a bad spot - problem is, you're dragging the rest of us with you. You and your fellow Dem Leaders screw up - and we taxpayers will have to "socialize" your bad decision making.
