Bill Text: TX HCR72 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Rejecting unlimited submission to the current administration and Congress, reaffirming the sovereignty of our state, and opposing taxes imposed on the citizens of Texas by the passage of the Affordable Care Act.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 14-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-04-23 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HCR72 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HCR72-Comm_Sub.html
83R8593 STE-F | ||
By: Creighton, et al. | H.C.R. No. 72 |
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WHEREAS, The Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the | ||
United States reads, "The powers not delegated to the United States | ||
by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are | ||
reserved to the States respectively, or to the people"; and | ||
WHEREAS, The Founding Fathers created the federal government | ||
as an agent of the states, not to supplant states' rights; and | ||
WHEREAS, The Texas Constitution affirms the notion, in | ||
Section 1, Article I, that "Texas is a free and independent State, | ||
subject only to the Constitution of the United States, and the | ||
maintenance of our free institutions and the perpetuity of the | ||
Union depend upon the preservation of the right of local | ||
self-government, unimpaired to all the States"; and | ||
WHEREAS, The health insurance tax is a usurpation of state | ||
sovereignty and abuse of federal power; and | ||
WHEREAS, The health insurance tax disparages the autonomy of | ||
the states, in violation of the Tenth Amendment; and | ||
WHEREAS, The health insurance tax will cost the State of | ||
Texas additional billions of dollars in government expenses; and | ||
WHEREAS, The National Federation of Independent Businesses | ||
reported the tax will result in 6,000 fewer private sector jobs and | ||
billions of dollars of lost sales in the State of Texas; and | ||
WHEREAS, The Congressional Joint Committee on Taxation noted | ||
that "taxes may be borne by: consumers in the form of higher prices; | ||
owners of firms in the form of lower profits; employees of firms in | ||
the form of lower wages; or other suppliers to firms in the form of | ||
lower payments"; and | ||
WHEREAS, The health insurance tax will disproportionately | ||
burden the small businesses of Texas with increased premiums; and | ||
WHEREAS, The Congressional Budget Office noted, "fees would | ||
largely be passed through to consumers in the form of higher | ||
premiums for private coverage"; and | ||
WHEREAS, The men and women of Texas will ultimately bear the | ||
costs of the health insurance tax, putting health care out of reach | ||
for many; and | ||
WHEREAS, The health insurance tax will stifle job creation, | ||
increase health care costs, and burden the economy of Texas; now, | ||
therefore, be it | ||
RESOLVED, That the 83rd Legislature of the State of Texas | ||
hereby reaffirm the pride of all Texans in our nation and our state; | ||
and, be it further | ||
RESOLVED, That the 83rd Legislature reject unlimited | ||
submission to the current administration and Congress, reaffirm the | ||
sovereignty of our state, as granted by the Tenth Amendment to the | ||
Constitution of the United States, and oppose the health insurance | ||
tax. |