Congress has rightly set out to both expand insurance coverage and reduce health-care costs for all Americans. But without an effective and enforceable individual mandate that guarantees the participation of everyone, neither goal is attainable. [More]
I don't see anything in there about where the feds get their Constitutional authority to do this--it's certainly not a delegated enumerated power, and the Founders would roll over in their graves and ask us why we haven't horsewhipped any "official" who would dare to suggest the Commerce Clause gives them that power.
This naked usurpation and presumption of new and unprecedented powers into the central government is a lot more unhealthy for citizens than any supposed "reforms," especially when you consider the cost of insurance is a direct result of innumerable government restrictions, and there really is no "free market" with innovative competition.
On top of that, feeling sorry for the "less fortunate" notwithstanding, in so many cases it is really those of us who have made responsible choices and sacrifices paying for those who have not been responsible and made choices to satisfy their impulse of the moment. All enabled by "social policy," which is paid for by the private sector through forced "wealth redistribution."
I would love to find people willing to enter into a contract with me where I had the power to unilaterally change the terms and conditions in my favor. That, in essence, is what happens whenever we allow government to give itself new powers that are outside the scope of what they have lawfully been delegated. That's what's happening here.
To paraphrase
Daniel Webster and
John Marshall, the power to tax is the power to destroy. Arguing that "fines" are too low presupposes there are not people who don't recognize that truth. Some do, and they are willing to defy. And then the retaliatory measures ratchet up. And resolve either breaks or fortifies the commitment to resistance. Push people who have had it far enough, and all kinds of unintended "health care" consequences could result...
Economic fascism beneficiary-and-thus-cheerleader
Janet Trautwein would just be astonished. As will everyone who thinks debates forever remain academic, and that history is not continually being established, and/or something that only happen to other people.
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