Changing the Health Care Game ; Democrats' Reforms Are About Money - so Should Be the Conservative Response

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Our yearlong health care debate has exposed some truths that have provided one more reason to conclude that the federal government's finances are out of control. There is too much debt; taxes and spending are too high; and there is no projected end to budget deficits.

In addition, politicians of both parties, over many decades, have made entitlement promises - such as Social Security and Medicare - that cannot be honored. They have borrowed so much from foreign creditors that heretofore sovereign decisions may be influenced by such creditors. Their entitlement promises will burden us with ever- increasing payroll taxes. They have added new tax rules and levies that make the tax code unintelligible. And they have created federal programs that the 10th Amendment to the Constitution ("The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people") intended to prohibit.

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Changing the Health Care Game ; Democrats' Reforms Are About Money - so Should Be the Conservative Response

If America wishes to change this trajectory, it needs new and bold thinking. Here is one candidate: Repeal the 16th Amendment to the Constitution (ratified Feb. 3, 1913) which gives Co...

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