For instance. if you think ObamaCare is bad. we would have had a singlepayer. totally governmentrun health care system if it werent for the 60vote requirement. We would have had the disastrous capandtrade bill in 2008 with its crony giveaways. making special interests rich while destroying jobs for hardworking Americans. The list of items that would have passed the Senate goes on and onthe 2007 immigration amnesty bill. the DISCLOSE Act to intimidate private groups who engage in political speech that was brought up in 2010. the abolition of secret ballot elections for unions in 2007. the prohibition on businesses replacing striking employees that was brought up in 1992. a bill to encourage public safety employees to unionize in 2010. the 1992 Clinton crime bill. drug price negotiations in Medicare Part D that amount to Federal price controls in 2007. an amendment to the Constitution to cancel First Amendment protections for speech around election time in 2014. stripping religious liberty protections from Christian business owners who object to paying for drugs that can cause an abortion in 2014. President Obamas second bigspending stimulus proposal in 2011. the socalled Buffett tax would have been passed several times by now. the tax increase to pay local government employee salaries in 2011. and who knows how many other tax increases they would have passed if they knew they could get away with it. Of course. we heard a few weeks ago a speech by Senator ALEXANDER. who has argued that one of the first things the Democratic leadership would do is follow the orders of union bosses and outlaw the many righttowork laws we have in the United States. forcing associations against the will of some people.
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