Megastate Fail: Do You Hear Me Now, Liberals?

So now President Obama has started to repeal ObamaCare by delaying the individual mandate, as a courtesy to six Democratic senators mostly running for reelection in red states. The pro-repeal six are Sens. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Angus King (D-ME), Mary Landrieu (D-LA), Heidi Heitkamp (D-ND), and Mark Warner (D-VA), and Tim Kaine (D-VA). This looks like a good time to rehearse the standard conservative position on the megastate. Maybe liberals will be listening, if they can hear anything over the thunder of the waterfall immediately downstream. The problem with the administrative state is that you cannot write a law to, e.g., provide universal healthcare, so that all the actions of the government's agents are covered by the letter of the law. In other words, big government and government under law are mutually exclusive. As soon as you write a law to manage healthcare you find that the law is inadequate for its purpose, because a law of 2,000 pages, even supplemented by regulations of...(Read Full Article)

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