By: Michael Opitz

Our nation is in serious jeopardy of collapse and take over by those who would destroy us. We have placed ourselves in this position by ignoring the warning signs over the past 40 years. It has happened slowly, but now the pace has quickened as the end game approaches. The left with help from many on our side who have been intimidated by the allegation that we were “conspiracy nuts.” Yes, it was a conspiracy. Hillary Clinton stated on the Today Show when she said, denying her husband’s sexual affair with Monica Lewinsky, that “there is a vast right wing conspiracy.”

The reverse allegations are often used to inoculate the left from being accused of the same thing. What Hillary was saying is that there was and is a vast “left wing Conspiracy…” What is happening today has been in the planning for many years. We saw that in the first months of the Obama administration. Complex organizational structures and directives were put in place all to quickly for them to have been developed on the fly. They had a great “Playbook” and our side stood there open mouth dumfounded. But many on our side knew of another guiding “Playbook,” Saul Alinsky’s rules for radicals evangelized by both Hillary, Barack Obama, and many others. We, the citizens, have been sadly misled, but we knew what was really happening.

All of that being said, the one thing that our founding fathers left us are the 9^th and 10^th Amendments giving substantial power to the States protecting them and our country from an overreaching and controlling federal government. Remember the States created the federal government with limited powers and reserving all other powers to the States. However, over the years the States have let themselves become subservient to the federal government. That was not the intent of the founding fathers, and they so affirmed this philosophy into the Constitution. Again, read the 9^th and 10^th Amendments known as the Bill Rights, and so agreed upon by the 13 founding states, and supported by each other state entering the Union.

Now to the point of Obamacare (The Affordable Care Act), the Constitution and the States’ fundamental authority as a co-equal partner in the Union of governance. In the recent Supreme Court ruling on Obamacare written by Chief Justice John Roberts, he essentially ruled that:

Obamacare was a federal tax, and therefore, could be levied by the federal government if the states fully agreed. Obamacare itself could not be mandated to citizens or the States without concurrence of the States. (We will not discuss Justice Roberts’ searching of the Constitution to declare Obamacare a tax, but we are addressing the fact and reaffirmation of legal authority of the States under the Constitution to accept or reject this federal law.)

The States have Constitutional authority to nullify Obamacare. The States have always had this authority, but now it has been underscored by the majority of the Supreme Court. The States including Georgia can simply not implement Obamacare or legislatively reject Obamacare. Either way works, but legislative nullification is a cleaner way to do this. And it is just that simple; however, the ramifications are more complex, but can be very beneficial to the States.

Benefits to the States of Nullifying Obamacare

1. The Georgia taxpayer will not incur a tax increase.
2. Insurance rates will not increase.
3. Businesses profits will not be affected, so layoffs can be avoided.
4. Georgia can provide a strong business environment for resident companies and companies not located in Georgia will strongly consider relocating to Georgia which will increase Georgia’s employment and tax base. Those other states nullifying Obamacare will also have a very positive business environment
5. Obamacare is the first step to moving our country to socialism and subsequently to Marxism. That is the history of totalitarianism advancement for over the last 100 years, and the stated goal of the Fabian Society founded January 4^th 1884, London, Emgland. The States can prevent this continued advancement in socialism..
6. Since the U.S. Supreme Court stated that the States cannot be forced to implement Obamacare and subsequent taxation. This opens the door to nullifying other federal laws and their subsequent taxation. It is important to remember that Georgia is a tax donor state, and if we withhold those taxes from the federal government, we can use those monies to our own advantage. Remember to tax the citizens of the states “direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several states … according to their respective numbers.” (Article I, Section 2. Paragraph 3.) Roberts realized that Obamacare does not have constitutional authority to legally apply a “direct Tax” to the citizens of the states. Remember that a Constitutional Amendment, 16^th Amendment, was required for the passage of a direct individual income tax. A constitutional Amendment must be approved by the States to force the citizens of the states to be levied with a direct individual federal tax.

It is time for the States to accept their rights, responsibilities, and protections under the U.S. Constitution. We need new visionaries in our state legislatures who understand the brilliance of our founding fathers who wrote the constitution to protect us from and overreaching and dictatorial federal government. We also need the same constitutional visionaries in Congress. It is imperative for us repeal the 17^th Amendment, so that the interests of the States are represented in Congress. This will solve longer term problems and move government closer to the people. That is “Good Government.”