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christx30

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12. But the thing is that we need to give a little slack
Fri Feb 20, 2015, 02:01 PM
Feb 2015

because this is expensive stuff. And this is a new thing that's never been tried in this country before. And if you hammer people like that, you're going to piss them off. And you will look at it like this: One party wants you to pay a huge, painful tax that your family can't afford. The other party has voted 40+ times to get that repealed. Which one do you think you'll vote for next time? Multiply that by a million people in that situation.

I was caught without auto insurance once. Couldn't afford it on top of gas and food and rent. I was fined. And I had to pay $350 per year for 3 years as part of a BS "Driver responsibility program", or my license would be suspended. You think I could afford that? Hell no. I stopped driving for 3 years while I paid that off. The bus sucks, but I got used to it.
When it's health insurance, you don't have the option of not living for 2 years while you pay off a BS penalty.

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