As a follow up to our last article on the new taxes being proposed to fund the new Livestock Care Standards board, Clint Ziegler has found some additional details being proposed in the implementing legislation that are likewise troubling.  We must hold this board and our legislators accountable on this issue and we must learn from our own mistakes in granting so much power to a new level of bureaucracy.  As George Washington said: “Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force.  Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.”

As Issue 2 was being discussed prior to the November election, many questions were raised as to how this board would function, how it would be funded, and who would fall under its authority.  We are now beginning to get the answers to those questions through the draft version of legislation to implement the constitutional amendment (Revised Code Chapter 130.01 Ohio Livestock Care Standards Board)

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With the passage of National Health Care, full of “Cornhusker Kickbacks” and unfunded mandates looming large on the horizon, many states’ Attorneys General have begun to challenge the constitutionality of “Obamacare”.  But on what grounds?  Unfortunately not on the grounds that they should be.  They merely claim that the “kickbacks” to ensure passage are unconstitutional, but their focus should lie on the constitutionality of the bill itself.  Is Health Care a good or a right?  That is where the question lies, and when you answer that, then it becomes clear why State Legislatures must act… and many have begun to do just that.