On Page 78 of the Governor’s presentation of the Fiscal Year 2010-2011 Recommended Budget prepared by her Office of State Budget and Management is this claim “Budget Highlights”
“SPENDS 5.0% LESS PER CAPITA THAN FY2008-09”
That sounds like some belt tightening is going on. But the claim is not true. From the Office of the Governor we [...]
On April 20th Governor Bev Perdue presented her budget to the General Assembly. Let’s recap:
In 2009, after a widely advertised budget gap of $4.5 billion, “draconian cuts” and prolonged hand wringing — actual spending went up about 2% from $19.6 billion in2008-2009 to an estimated $20 billion in 2009-2010 ($20.4 billion budget with about $400 [...]
Governor Halts Plans to Protect Citizens’ Rights
Raleigh, N.C. – Supporters of the Health Care Protection Act rallied on Halifax Mall today as a meeting of the Council of State took place nearby. In the N.C. House, the bill will be introduced by House Republican Leader Paul Stam as well as Representatives Thom Tillis, Jeffrey Barnhart [...]
STATE OF FLORIDA
BILL McCOLLUM
ATTORNEY G ENERAL
January 19, 2010
This legal analysis is of the constitutionality of the individual mandate provisions contained in the health care legislation as passed by the U.S. Senate (H.R. 3590 as amended) and the U.S. House (II.R. 3962). Congress’s unprecedented mandate on every citizen to purchase health insurance coverage or 10 face a penalty raises serious constitutional concerns. The U.S. Constitution enshrines a form of limited government to protect the rights of the states under a system of federalism and to protect the individual freedom of our citizens. The health care individual mandate provisions as currently drafted violate constitutional principles and lack constitutional authority for Congress to enact.
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to protect the freedom to choose health care and health insurance.
(a) A law or rule shall not do any of the following:
(1) Compel a person to (i) provide for health care services or medical treatment for that person or (ii) contract with, or enroll in, a public or private health care system or health insurance plan.
On Monday, Governor Perdue announced a set of legislative proposals and proposed executive orders aimed at reforming the ethical requirements for state government employees, elected officials and appointees to state boards and commissions. Perdue’s ethics reform package comes amidst an ongoing investigation into former Democrat Gov. Mike Easley and Ruffin Poole, a former aide to [...]
