Monday, March 29, 2010

Is the Health Care Law Unconstitutional? - Room for Debate Blog - NYTimes.com

Here is a great summary of the possible issues which the court will weigh as presented by constitutional experts. 

  • Spring view of the Supreme Court BuildingWhat the opponents are really claiming is that it is unconstitutional to make Americans pay taxes.
  • The Supreme Court has never upheld a “tax” penalizing private citizens who refuse to enter into a contract with a private company
  • Any state that does not want to expand Medicaid can simply drop the program entirely.
    • If Congress can legislate this broadly, then there is no limit to federal power in every aspect of life.

 

Is the Health Care Law Unconstitutional? - Room for Debate Blog - NYTimes.com

DuPage County: Transparency In Government

In Boone County, not even county board members can see the individual expenditures of all county funds.  In DuPage county every citizen can see them on the internet. The reports contain information about expenditures subject to DuPage County Board budgetary appropriation.

Do you think we have a problem here in Boone County?

County Auditor Bob Grogan is pledged to provide the citizens and taxpayers of DuPage County with timely and pertinent information regarding the operations of DuPage County Government. To that end, the Auditor has made the individual expenditures of County funds available for public viewing. The data is available for the current fiscal year through the end of last month, as well as several prior fiscal years.

Click on the following to see how thing should work:  DuPage County

Deadly Blast Rocks Subway Station in Moscow - NYTimes.com

 

explosion occurred at 7:50 am in the Lubyanka subway station, killing people both on the platform and in an incoming train. Numerous others were injured.

Deadly Blast Rocks Subway Station in Moscow - NYTimes.com