FOREST CITY — Property owners inside the town limits of Forest City will pay more for their local taxes than county taxes for the 2023-24 fiscal year. At 59 cents
president s chances for re-election. it does not hurt mitt romney. it hurts obama. i think jon laid it out perfectly. i m sorry. jon: under the constitution, governors are allowed to or states are allowed to try things independently that the national government is not necessarily allowed to try. isn t that the difference between the possible unconstitutionality of a national health care plan versus a state health care plan? i don t know. because he is antonin scalia said he has not read the whole thing. he is not going to. i want to see what the decision is going to be. i do really believe the sticking point will be the individual mandate, which as i said before, governor romney was for before he was against it. and president obama was against the before he was before. i want to know what the plan will be. jon: angela, what about that? some republicans are uncomfortable with the health care plan governor romney instituted in massachusetts. no question, jon, some republicans are u
constitution intended for states to do. all right. so mitt romney trying to draw a distinction saying we did a state health care plan, not a big gangly federal plan. is this playing well with primary voters? i think we don t know yet because the health care plan that the president pushed through congress last year is the most energizing issue for republicans. so definitely damaging for governor romney that the white house keeps talking about how he provided kind of a state model for it. i was at that dinner in new hampshire where you showed the clip from. that was an approach romney is now taking every time he s asked about this question. it may have been right for massachusetts. that doesn t mean it s right for the whole country. but unlike pawlenty on cap and trade, he s not apologizing for it, and he s not saying it was a mistake. he s just trying to draw that distinction. other candidates have attempted to explain with mixed results, listen to newt gingrich talking about his
services, some of the areas that governments are cutting to deal with budget shortfalls. we are looking at the budget cuts that are hitting different programs. tell us. a lot of people are suffering but you have some specifics on what s on the chopping block. i do. a couple things i learned in gathering this information is it nothing is guaranteed to stick around. it the proposals could affect many, many people and these are not the decisions that governors and state and local leaders want to have to make. take for instance what s already happened in arizona. people who are on a state health care plan would lose their ability to get certain organ transplants. they could get them but the state plan would not pay for them. bone marrow transplants, people are affected by that. they don t have the money and the plan will no longer cover it. moving to illinois, certain substance abuse programs could be on the chopping block because the department of human services