This should be the first law of 2012. Whoever say's "there oughta be a law" should be immediately taken outside and hung on the nearest tree until they can no longer speak/breathe.

So much for smaller Government... Sounds like a bunch of control freaks gone wild!

Maybe Libs are coming to the realization that they screwed themselves.

EnSLAVEed.

Mr. Hope and Change signs the NDAA into law during "end of the year midnight legislation"... isn't that how Pelosi got her nonsense Obamacare passed. I wish I could do things in my life this way.

Hey honey, well I bought that Corvette in the middle of the night... guess we have to keep it.

for those of you that can actually read more than two sentences.

Seriously, we had enough laws in 1790. Everything else could, and should be solved by individual responsibility and willing to sacrifice (ie quit your job if you don't like it).

Ventura had a great idea, albeit impractical, where every third year or whatever, laws could only be repealed, not passed.

The 40,000 is just state laws too. Wonder what the actual number is, when you include Federal statutes and Agency regulations. Bet the EPA alone could beat the 40K.

Hey honey, well I bought that Corvette in the middle of the night... guess we have to keep it.

small dick = shitty marriage

Actually many people do believe that mormon's are alien's from the planet Moron... Its a distant planet where religious control freaks live..They spend their days wearing religious underwear...An women have no right to choose,they just obey.

We got 45 million people without health care insurance. The affordable health care act, will offer low cost basic insurance to these people. Hospitals are seeing a rise in people with no insurance,so their bills go unpaid. Even Obama said the bill is not prefect.Newt even said people need to buy health care insurance or a bond, nothing is free.
You can read the affordable health care, bill on the internet.

This is not Redistribution its about people being able to buy low cost basic coverage. This beats the republican plan of doing nothing.

You're full of crap!!! Obamacare is a F'ing farce... It's caused the cost of working people's health insurance to double in the last two years, so working people like myself have lost their health insurance.. So now we can all be on medicaid!!!!! It hasn't, and won't provide shit; other than more taxes, more debt, & more people dependent on government..

The affordable health care act, will offer low cost basic insurance to these people.

To the poor, yes it will.

For the middle class, especially those who work for small businesses or are self employed, they'll still be SOL. The cheapest family policy on the exchange (bronze tier) will run in the $14,000/year ballpark. Families earning more than 400% of the poverty level will be ineligible for any subsidies. The employer mandate only impacts individual plans and not family plans.

To make matters worse, the affordable major medical plans that we rely on will go away. To save money, we now have the option to opt out of maternity, prescriptions, dental/vision, and have giant deductibles. In 2014, everybody who buys a policy on the exchange will have to have a comprehensive policy with a low deductible. Until December, we had a $5,000 deductible HDHP/HSA with all the bells and whistles for around $1,000/month but just dumped it for a bare bones, $10,000 deductible plan for less than $500/month. This plan will be illegal in 2014.

I'm a veteran, never been on unemployed, and have never even had so much as a speeding ticket, yet in 2014 when my family's major medical policy goes away, will be labeled a deadbeat by the IRS and will be fined accordingly.

Re. #12 | POSTED BY CUTGOVTBY75PERC AT 2012-01-02 04:44 AM

You are absolutely right. Everyone being dependent on the government is exactly what these power crazed Socialist and Communist what. If we all have to depend on the government, they can control everything. Most of the flaming liberals and many of the so-called conservatives love all the Obama-type BS. The people need to wise up: the closer we can get to the basics of our constitution,the better off we will be!

Hey, folks, the article is about STATE LAWS. Conservatives, that's where you say the power belongs, so you really can't complain, eh?

Hey, folks, the article is about STATE LAWS...
#15 | Posted by pragmatist at 2012-01-02 09:15 AM | Reply | Flag:

When the government hacks found some time outside of their "insider trading" deals, cheating on their wives, and vacations, it looks like they were pretty busy sticking their noses into other people's business wherever they could. Cuz we definitely don't have enough "laws" in the country yet!

40,000 new laws. That's 40K/365 = 110 per day.

My guess: 39,000 of them will cost me money, and make America weaker.

Here's one that works for me though, although it doesn't go anywhere near far enough (applies only to govt employees)...

*Alabama, with the country's toughest immigration law, will require all employers who do business with any government entity to use a federal system known as E-Verify to check that all new employees are in the country legally.

JM

No insurance no service...nothing is free..

Wonder why the Republicans and the Democrats won't follow the constitution? Its does state in the constitution,there will be no standing military. So actually by having a military we are not following the constitution.

So is the constitution,out dated? Yes....

"*Alabama, with the country's toughest immigration law, will require all employers who do business with any government entity to use a federal system known as E-Verify to check that all new employees are in the country legally. "

GOOD. Put the onus on the EMPLOYER. Hold employers accountable. Guess what? If employers got busted every time they hired an illegal immigrant, we'd have a much smaller population of illegal immigrants. Of course, that system isn't enough, but it's a start.

And Reitze, E-Verify is not biometric. Go rail about RFIDs, which I believe Rep. Ron Paul was once in favor of... Those horrify me, and not because of any Satanic fear, but because of invasion of privacy. I won't implant chips in my kids either....

Prag. E-verify goes with enhanced id for citzens too. Otherwise no job, especially no casual ones. Why are you and everyone so blind to secondary implications?

Everyone needs to have health insurance! Tired of people who think everything is a freebee. No insurance no service...Time everyone pays their own way. Just talk to people who work at a hospital,they will tell you the truth. The amount of people showing up with no insurance is really hurting these hospitals. Its time to end the free ride,no insurance no service.

#23 for the sake of dissasters its worth having basic. But everyone expects it all when its them while at the same time corrupt pharma ins drs drug the insured... killing in the name of... now ya do what the tolda...

22--Not sure what you mean. Can you provide a link that shows it's biometrically based? I didn't see that on the E-Verify website (yes, I went there before I posted, but I could have gotten it wrong). And I'm not blind to secondary implications. And if you're going to talk about secondary implications, you should make that clear. In 18, you appear to be asserting that E-Verify IS biometric identification.

Again, look into RFIDs. I shared your disdain for this kind of crap, though I don't make the leap to Satanism. (Are you a fan of J. Chick Comics?)

As of July 2011 (Last count) there have been 1,471 waivers granted to companies and business across America (Even a few high end restaurants, in Pelosi's district of course).

Also excluded from parts of Obama Care are the whole states of Nevada, Maine and New Hampshire.
The number of states looking to opted out is growing every day. Why do you think that is?
As far as I know NO state has said we love it, we want it. Why do you think that is?

I have not heard one of the financial programs say that Obama Care is good for business. Why do you think that is?
ALL of the money to pay for Obama Care is based on PROJECTED INCOME from a job market that is pure fiction.

I don't care what party you are from there is no money for Obama Care, it cannot work it will not work.

All of Europe is going under from the weight of just this kind of scheme and other reasons, but all of the reasons are based on the idea that a large part of the population can do nothing except take from the working people and expect the same care and life style as the working people.
Not everybody can have everything, Soviet Russia also tried it, and it failed miserably.

So much so it collapsed their nation, now they are doing it the way we use to do it.
They are doing better and better every day.
We on the other hand are going to try to do what they and Europe have already proven can not work,and as such we as a nation are sliding closer and closer to collapse.

But you Libtarts just keep TALKING about how good its going to be based on nothing.
While all around you the real world is screaming for you to wake up.

.....NOPE in November, then the unions of the teachers, billions and billions wasted year after year.

Hmm...live a legitimate life as an American to work and pay for your kid's college, or have an anchor baby out of Mexico and send them to college for free??

California, why do you make some decisions so difficult?

no insurance = no service

In the USA one third of the people are working some type on govt jobs. Teachers,cop's,military,etc.. All getting tax payer funded benefits. One six of the people are uninsured themselves. But still they pay for the benefits for Govt employees. Many small businesses don't even offer employees any benefits.If there is any redistribution of wealth,its coming from the tax payers. Who pays the wages and benefits for all the government employees.

In 18, you appear to be asserting that E-Verify IS biometric identification.
Again, look into RFIDs. I shared your disdain for this kind of crap, though I don't make the leap to Satanism. (Are you a fan of J. Chick Comics?)
#25 | Posted by pragmatist at 2012-01-02 12:02 PM | Reply | Flag:ok...

sorry I guess I do seem to assume too much sometimes...

And no it may not go as far as RFIDs but it does go toward state IDs registered with the fed social security #s, etc. - just for your gardening by that neighbor-kid sort of thing... and there are enough other initiatives like voter ID, enhanced IDs for flying, and so-on... also a chip in the Obamacare depending on how that's interpreted.

If you think what we have works well enough - then it may seem the political class is hell bent on having a law for everything and then miss-using them.

How long till everyone's in jail for something? Regardless of if anyone in power is satanic or not it seems their desire to control the population is going in that direction - Just after Christmas it was signed in as the 1st ever - NDAA year - indefinite detention for any "classified" reason. IMHO - that was treason, SATANIC POTUS and most of congress! I doubt Obama's the antichrist though I maybe I underestimate the devil too.

So teachers, cops and the military should not have benefits? You realize that in those circumstances only people who can't get any other job are going to apply for these jobs, right? Righties proclaim that CEO and other executive salaries are so high because they need high quality people. To get the highest quality employees you have to pay more in the "private sector". Why would it be any different in the "public sector"? And why wouldn't we want high quality teachers? You do realize the competitiveness of the country depends on a well educated populace, don't you? And the military...spending 20 or 30 years working to protect the country by putting their lives on the line doesn't earn a decent retirement? How old are you, 16?

That was in response to #29 | POSTED BY TRUTHTELLER101

J. Chick Comics?
#25 | Posted by pragmatist at 2012-01-02 12:02 PM | Reply | Flag:

never heard of him - google result sounds a bit interesting though i doubt anythign 'fundamentalist' would be anything more than an annoying waste of time reading.

"sorry I guess I do seem to assume too much sometimes..."

Yes, you do. : )

"And no it may not go as far as RFIDs but it does go toward state IDs registered with the fed social security #s, etc. - just for your gardening by that neighbor-kid sort of thing..."

Really? Link? The law noted above talked about "employers," as in people who report payments and such. Do you issue a 1099 to the kid who mows your lawn? I don't believe that the problem with influx of illegal immigrants is because people wanna come mow lawns around the neighborhood (though they would, I"m sure). I think it's because there are thousands (hundreds of?) who manage to get hired by restaurants and factories.

"and there are enough other initiatives like voter ID, enhanced IDs for flying, and so-on... also a chip in the Obamacare depending on how that's interpreted."

So far, that's a lot of interpretation. I think we're killing privacy, but I think you take it too far. (I read that thing about the Obamacare chip and it was all fear, no substance.)

33--I was sort of playing with you. J. Chick was responsible (and still is?) for lots of comic-book-ish "tracts" in the 70s. One of those I remember best is the one about the Mark of the Beast, barcodes that would be imprinted on humans. If you accepted one, you'd be doomed to Hell. Seems that Hell is REALLY big and Heaven is extremely tiny.

There were other good ones. The Halloween comic is outstanding.

Your take on Christianity, Reitze, is extremely personal and oddly at odds with much Christian doctrine/dogma. I respect that a great deal.

no insurance = no service....

die!

I'm fresh from a four-figure termite job. And eternally grateful for government regulations. herm

#35 I don't think its the Christan doctrine that's the problem. It's the interpretation. Like don't forget Paul was a sinner so that crap he wrote needs INTERPRETED not sucked in for law-making pharisee crap.

"Paul was a sinner so that crap he wrote"

It's all forged dimwit.

Given that we're talking about the Bible and organized religion, the interpretation is the doctrine; you can't separate the two.

That's why your personal reading is so cool to me (though I don't agree with it and am not a Christian by any meaning I know of).

#39 lol that too.

Though even if you do read it like its 100% fiction, getting a clue Paul is fucked up helps with INTERPRETATION. And from there, the main character Jesus may resonate with you... transform the fiction into your heart... just like Howard Roark in the Rand novel, and just like Johnathan in Rollarball!

$40 what I'd say to that prag is that if what's attributed to "Jesus" is true - then it's "Jesus" who will see the truth of what's in your heart - or if not then we may all be doomed. But for me the hope is in the man Jesus. He gives me a pair around here too - like I don't care who I piss off if what I say is true (Jesus balls).

The way we're tanking toward a collapse... 1 world govt/currency, ... it does seem that regardless if its devine or just a globalist script from aincient times - there are enough powerful vested interests in it that its' become self-fullfilling. All that aside, its' nice to know the man.

From the Bible to Rollerball, with a stop at the Fountainhead along the way--wow. : )

Btw, Roark is an asshole. : )

#43 hay watch it there!

GOP = God's Ordained Politicians!

also known as religious freaks.....

Well, he is. How anyone can respect that guy is beyond me. It's like respecting Gordon Gekko.

I'll take my building and go home;p

How about for every new law enacted--they have to drop two old ones?

It's cool; I have my own building. : )

"I have my own building. : )"
One hopes toaster will suicide bomb it soon.

Ooh, I have my very own Internet stalker. Thanks for makin' my day, Zat.

Don't worry prag, they're not real stalkers. But those perverts in congress will be sending their thugs to some doors. I hope nobody here gets "black bagged" like EV did.

I'm not worried. It's actually pretty exciting. Only Crispee has come close to stalking me, and it wasn't this lame--he was always at least close to an actual topic.

40K reasons to vote libertarian.