a state-run health insurance system is limited to that state. You can always leave and move to a neighboring state if you'd like, just as people have always done when faced with high state income taxes for example.

When the federal government does it, you can't escape the onerous mandates it imposes on the people without leaving the country. As an American, you shouldn't have to leave the country to gain your freedom like people in Cuba or the Soviet Union are/were forced to do....

in Farmington that virtually all business activity, including that one, has been destroyed by the construction of the light rail line.

“The tentative contract agreements negotiated by Gov. Mark Dayton with the state's two largest unions are representative of the problem today in state government: protecting the status quo and asking Minnesota taxpayers to pay more for it. Members of AFSCME and MAPE have been working for the past year and a half without a new contract. That wasn't a problem for their members. The current contract, which includes a $43 million increase for built-in autopilot pay increases and free health...

then you're old enough to remember when Hubert Humphrey stood on the floor of the U.S. senate and argued against those who said we'd never be able to keep our obligations and said "If this program ever costs more than a hundren million dollars I'll eat the paper it's written on."

Last year Medicare cost over 5,000 times that. In 1967 long-run forecasts estimated that Medicare would cost about $12 billion by 1990. In reality, it cost more than $98 billion that year. Today it costs $...