Primitives starting to realize that Obama care isn't a free pony...

[Freeper]

.. yet the little goons will support it blindly.

Ruby the Liberal  (43 posts) Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Thu Sep-10-09 07:50 AM
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Is it legal to mandate payments to a for-profit company?
   
I appreciate the auto-insurance argument, but I can choose not to drive.

Is it legal for the government to mandate that I pay money to a for-profit entity on the basis that I can't opt not to breathe?

Is it legal to force me to subsidize a multi-million dollar per year CEO and his/her beholden shareholders and fine me if I don't?

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elleng  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)  Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Thu Sep-10-09 07:53 AM
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1. One particular company? I'd say, "NO."

Ruby the Liberal  (43 posts) Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Thu Sep-10-09 07:54 AM
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2. Is it any different if there are multiple options
   
all cut out of the same cloth?

rentman  (8 posts) Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Thu Sep-10-09 08:07 AM
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3. Utilities
   
Gas, electric.
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RB TexLa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Thu Sep-10-09 08:11 AM
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4. Who mandates that you have gas or electricity?

Exactly. Life may be harder without them but, we don't get fined if we don't have them.

Maybe us tea birthers aren't so crazy after all to oppose this. 

[USA4ME]

Questions we've been asking for months now they're just starting to finally address, though they still do it on a kiddiegarten level.

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[Freeper]

Questions we've been asking for months now they're just starting to finally address, though they still do it on a kiddiegarten level.

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Hell maybe we are more nuanced after all. 

[thundley4]

I've read several articles saying that mandatory insurance will fail on constitutional grounds, and several groups are already setting up challenges.

[Freeper]

I've read several articles saying that mandatory insurance will fail on constitutional grounds, and several groups are already setting up challenges.

I dunno we can't really depend on the SC to shoot it down.

[DumbAss Tanker]

Hell maybe we are more nuanced after all. 

I prefer to be more direct and just say "Smarter."

 

[tuolumnejim]

RB TexLa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Thu Sep-10-09 08:11 AM
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4. Who mandates that you have gas or electricity?

The other Bush.