Governor Deal signed these into law in 2013
SB 81: On May 6, 2013 Governor Deal signed
this bill into law. This bill destroys property rights. This bill
says that you cannot build your house if a Ginseng plant is on the site.
It says a farmer who harvests Ginseng must replant Ginseng rather than another
crop.
Mayor Pennington said he would have vetoed this
bill. Ginseng is wonderful plant that should be protected on government
lands. He believes this law is counterproductive because it would cause
some property owners to secretly remove Ginseng plants on their land to protect
their property values.
SB
24: On Feb. 13th,
Governor Deal signed this bill into law. This is a hospital bed tax that
was required for Georgia to obtain federal funding for Medicaid.
Mayor Pennington said he would have vetoed this
bill. He said these federal monies come with strings attached,
which allow federal control and often increase costs more than are gained by
the federal monies. On a speech at a Carroll County public meeting he
said, the hospital bed tax was originally passed by the Perdue administration
as a temporary measure, but Deal got it renewed this year and sent it to an
unelected board, which has the power to increase it. “This is clearly
unconstitutional,” he said. “Any tax law has to start in the House and this one
was started in the Senate.”
SB 97: On April 17, 2013, Governor Deal
signed this bill into law. This creates a Georgia beef commission.
Mayor Pennington says that this increases the size of
government and like most government programs will expand in the future and
likely be used as an instrument of control. All of the duties of this
commission can be done voluntarily through the free market.
HB 208: On May 6, 2013 Governor Deal signed
this bill that forced nursing homes to offer flu vaccines.
David Pennington says he would have vetoed this
bill. It may be a good idea for nursing homes to offer flu vaccines but
it is not the role of government to force this upon the private sector.
It stifles innovation. Perhaps in the future a medication could do a
better job with less complications.
SB 212 & HB 354: Governor Deal signed these bills
that forced state control of local school systems.
David Pennington says he would have vetoed this bill. He
believes that these may be good ideas but local school boards should make the
decisions.
David Pennington says he would have vetoed this
bill. He said government ownership of private companies is
socialism. This bill is nothing more than crony capitalism at taxpayer
expense. Governments are notoriously bad at picking winners.
Source:http://www.electtherightcandidate.us/Candidate/David_Pennington.html
Comments:
Most of these bills were brought forward to accommodate
other federal or state governmental entities. The bed tax was a cost shift from
patients to the state Medicaid account. The incentive was federal matching bribe
money.
Deal defenders will claim that this kind of legislation
is necessary to function in our current governing environment (pre 2016), but
if Republicans take the Senate in 2014 and the Whitehouse in 2016, Deal may
start acting more like Pennington.
Pennington and others are questioning how long this can
go on. Many other States have pushed back on federal government imposed abuse.
They survived and set an example Deal won’t follow. Bad Deal.
2012-2013 was the year of the special interests, the ad
valorem tax for vehicle purchases can no longer be incorporated into the bill
at the auto dealers. You get caught at the Tag office, even if you bought it
directly from an owner. Tax increase.
2013-2014 was the year of allowing federal abuse from
Obamacare and Common Core with no repeal of Regionalism Laws HB 277 or HB 1216,
just more bills for special interests including government special interests. I look forward to Dave Pennington's statements on the session we just completed.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
Original Posted on NTL Conservative Blog 1/19/13
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