Jindal: Ruling could force people to eat tofu and drive hybrid cars

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15. GOP can kiss my ass. They always have shitty logic.

This issue is different from mere taxes. It is different from paying auto insurance.

Taxes go to public agencies that are accountable to the voters. The only time it is NOT accountable is when they contract out to private contractors and DEAR GOD that almost always leads to fucking disaster. Which should have taught America a lesson that private contractors for Government services is stupid and should be done away with, but we haven't learned that lesson, so...

In any case, paying auto insurance is a burden you incur for driving a car. If you don't drive a car you don't need to pay for auto insurance.

Being ordered to pay for health insurance is not the problem when it comes to paying taxes to support Medicare for All. That's not the problem. Being ordered to buy insurance from a private corporation is the problem. Being ordered to do so just because you are alive, means you can't get away from this obligation.

Oh wait, no, mybad, I only WISH the situation was that good. You can just pay the tax penalty instead. How does the tax penalty help us cover the uninsured? And wait, can't they just pay the tax penalty and then go get insurance after they get sick?

And a lot of employers have bullied Obama into waivers precisely because they planned to drop hundreds of thousands of employees at the onset of the individual mandate in order to save money by paying the tax penalty instead. Even now we have consultants advising even more corporations to do exactly this. Southwest Airlines has the balls to come out and say they stand to save $300 MILLION by dumping their employees off their health care plan and paying the tax penalty instead. They're using the Individual Mandate as a justification for this epically psycho asstard behavior. Sir or madam, you should be accusing me of writing science fiction to come up with stories like what Southwest is considering. It's just too evil to imagine as being possible in a civilized society.

What utterly floors me about this is that DUers haven't launched into a howling BLOODRAGE over corporations using the Individual Mandate against us like this. Or that we somehow let this loophole exist. When companies like Southwest pulls this crap, you as the taxpayer will subsidize their miscreant behavior, and their employees will pay dearly.