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TheKentuckian

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2. Everything is if you stretch it enough. I'm not sure why a free people would want
Sun Mar 25, 2012, 01:15 PM
Mar 2012

an unlimited government with a the authority to compel commerce and worst dictate individual purchase with employers as the gatekeeper and selecter of a for profit product for the employees?

Particularly when we know there are no cost controls and ever increasing "cost sharing"?

Nothing is bounding this authority, you guys are literally arguing that the state should have the power to compel our after tax income down to the fucking penny, which means you are demanding slavery and certainly calling for what I assume you believe is a friendly form of fascism.

This argument is batshit fucking crazy, why not just declare ourselves serfs, select a king and aristocracy (I assume the wealthy, and be done with the illusions?

This mandate to buy from the company store is well beyond disgusting. Real people laid down their lives and/or suffered real hardship to end this happy horseshit and now we have supposed liberal clamoring for such to not only happen again but to give our largely corporately captured government unlimited power to compel such

I really think a significant chunk of the party is ignorant, dangerously lacking foresight, or plain old crazy. There is nary a hint from some quarters that this could be abused, just happy unicorn talk and a level of faith in the politicians to be responsible that reality in no way supports.

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