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Last Updated on Friday, 17 December 2010 02:24 Written by rslcpol Friday, 17 December 2010 02:24
From KVUE.com:
A federal judge in Florida on Thursday heard arguments that the Obama administration’s health care law is unconstitutional.
Texas joined Florida’s lawsuit against the federal government, so Attorney General Greg Abbott traveled to the Sunshine State today to make arguments on the state’s behalf.
Nineteen other states including Texas, Michigan, Mississippi, and Louisiana, joined with Florida in its lawsuit. Their argument: if the federal government can be allowed to require Americans to buy health insurance, what is to keep them from requiring Americans to purchase other healthy items, even broccoli?
“This is the biggest encroachment upon our freedom that Congress has ever levied and if Congress has the power to force Americans to go out and buy something, Americans will lose their freedom,” said Texas Attorney General Gregg Abbott.