Thursday, 29 April 2010 00:02
Dear Friends,
The recently-enacted federal health care “reform” is an unprecedented expansion of federal power and trampling of constitutional rights under the Ninth and Tenth Amendments. Accordingly, I sponsored HB 423, the “Alaska Health Freedom Act,” to better position Alaska to challenge this federal overreach in the Courts. If Congress can use the Commerce Clause to force you to buy one private good, they can use it to force you to buy any private good. Such suffocating government control of our lives is offensive to the American spirit and in violation of individual rights, laid out in Article 1 Section 1 of our state constitution, to the “enjoyment of the rewards of their own industry.”