The state of Florida, along with nine others, plan to file a federal lawsuit in an attempt to oppose the new health care reform bill that US president Barack Obama is to sign into law Tuesday.

Bill McCollum, the Republican attorney-general of Florida, said that they plan on filing the lawsuit as soon as Obama signs the bill into law. McCollum claims to be supported by Florida Governor Charlie Crist, along with the states of Alabama, Nebraska, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Utah and Washington, in a report by CNN.

The CNN report notes that all the attorneys-general of the mentioned states are Republican, although the party contests that their decision is fueled by respect for law and not by mere politics.

The party contests that the new health reform bill will force their individual governments to spend money which they did not have. The increased budget forcibly allocated on local governments to support health care also forces them to neglect other affairs of the state, including education, foster care and security, according to McCollum’s argument. He further suggests that the new health care reform bill is then against the country’s 10th Amendment.

“This is a tax or a penalty on just living, and that’s unconstitutional,” says McCollum. “There’s no provision in the Constitution of the United States giving Congress the power to do that.”

Further reading: How does the new Health Care Reform bill affect you?

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