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If you think republican governors across the country are using fiscal crisis as a pretext to do stuff they otherwise want to do, this is something i don t think i would have ever believed republicans want to do. this is what they are proposing. hasn t gotten much national attention. check it out. rick snyder s budget in michigan is expected to cut aid to cities and towns so much that a lot of cities and towns in michigan are expected to be in dire financial straights. right now, governor snyder is pushing a bill that would give himself, governor snyder and his administration, the power to declare any town or school district to be in a financial emergency. if a town was declared by the governor and his administration to be in a financial emergency, they would get to put somebody in charge of that town, and they want to give that emergency manager they put in charge of the town the power to, quote, reject, modify, or terminate any contract the town into, including any collective bargaini ....
Using fiscal crisis as a pretext to do stuff they otherwise want to do, this is something i don t think i would have ever believed republicans want to do. this is what they are proposing. hasn t gotten much national attention. check it out. rick snyder s budget in michigan is expected to cut aid to cities and towns so much that a lot of cities and towns in michigan are expected to be in dire financial straights. right now, governor snyder is pushing a bill that would give himself, governor snyder and his administration, the power to declare any town or school district to be in a financial emergency. if a town was declared by the governor and his administration to be in a financial emergency, they would get to put somebody in charge of that town, and they want to give that emergency manager they put in charge of the town the power to, quote, reject, modify, or terminate any ....
Something because that s beyond the power and the constitution that says congress has the power to, quote, regulate commerce. now, those who had objected to this said if somebody doesn t have insurance, then they re not doing anything you can regulate. and basically justice roberts agrees with that. however, he says, there s a longstanding cannon or tradition of interpreting laws, acts of congress, that says you look at there are other ways to find it constitutional. and he says there is. this is the government s fallback argument that if the mandate is still constitutional under the congress taxing authority. what the chief justice says here is all we re saying is, if you don t buy insurance, then you get taxed the same way if you buy gasoline or anything else. it s a tax on something that you ve done or not done and that he says is within congress power. and then he goes on to say on the medicaid side of thing, andrea, he sort of gives the states half a loaf here. they have said co ....