[Vision2020] Say What?

[Tom Hansen]

"I think we should take our Attorney General's caution about the dangers
of a patchwork of federal regulation seriously. Just think of it! There
would be parts of the country free of the economically smothering presence
of the federal bureaucrats, and other parts in which businesses were still
being suffocated. Just think of the confusion that would introduce in the
legal sector. And what about the inequitable distribution of employment as
the more free parts of the country recovered and the rest went to Hell in
hand basket? It just simply would not be fair to let central planning
develop this kind of inconsistency. But wait. Are not over 700 entities
granted waivers to get out of Obamacare? That sounds like tremendous
inconsistency already. Is that not already a patchwork, when the law,
which should be blindly and consistently applied, is only applied to those
who do not have the political power to get from underneath it? Since it
takes political pull with this administration to get that waiver, it looks
like some of the same bunch that helped craft the bill are getting
exempted, just like the legislators themselves!

I view nullification as a win-win for both the federal and state
government. The federal government needs to cut at least 1.5 Trillion from
its annual budget just in order to break even. State nullification helps
the federal government identify savings, and it helps the states create a
business atmosphere in which people can get back to work. Maybe western
states could begin to develop their energy resources more freely, before
the Middle East blows up entirely and America's transportation grinds to a
deadly halt because we have allowed our resources to be placed out of
reach by omnipresent federal bureaucracies. GO NULLIFICATION!"

- Gresham Bouma in an email to Idaho's legislators (February 10, 2011)

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Seeya round town, Moscow.

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho

"The Pessimist complains about the wind, the Optimist expects it to change
and the Realist adjusts his sails."

- Unknown