Northeast Propositions for the month of October

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

My vote against the Adoption Reform Bill was due to the fact that as written clause 1 applies to private adoptions.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

My vote against the Adoption Reform Bill was due to the fact that as written clause 1 applies to private adoptions.

It that sense it is exactly the same as laws against discrimination in private employment.

Which I also oppose.  The exact same justification for such laws, that they serve the good of society, was also used to support laws that are pro-discrimination, such as the various Jim Crow laws or the Nuremburg Laws of Nazi Germany.  In contrast, I favor leaving such private decisions to the discretion of the private individuals who make them.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Quite a number of obnoxious bills were passed this month, of which the Health Insurance Option Restoration Act is to my eye the most obnoxious.  The whole system of employer provided health insurance that section 2 of the bill holds up as the gold standard of health care is based on the outmoded idea that like serfs of old, workers are bound to their workplaces for life. I have no objection to employers choosing to offer health insurance as a fringe benefit, but the idea that they should be required to do so imposes upon them a burden in HR management that they may well be ill-equipped to bear, especially in the case of small businesses.