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One major problem I have with the congress implementing ANY changes is the US Constitution specifically amendment 10 which states "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." There is no where in the constution is there an explicit mandate for this.  As a tax payer I'm very tired of the federal government putting mandates on my tax dollars that are quite frankly questionaable under the constitution.  one example would be the entire department of education. It is the individual states responsibilituies for overseeing this NOT the federal governments.

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