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TheKentuckian

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5. All mandates are not created equal. I'm not against any possible form of a mandate
Tue Mar 20, 2012, 02:13 PM
Mar 2012

I am against this distortion that dictates we buy a for profit product at the discretion of our employers. We are fighting to have a government that can compel financial activity on post-tax income and further the conduit and selection of that activity be left to our shitty employers.

Worse, this power is not bounded. In fact, it MUST be argued that the power be unlimited in order to justify the pile of crap the insurance cartel has pushed and to no small degree written.

What freedom can a people have when a such a precedent is set? We can be made to do or not do literally anything if someone can argue that it has an impact on interstate commerce as virtually anything imaginable can.

Fascism isn't just a danger under such a legal framework, it is inherent.
Freedom isn't just limited under such a scheme, it is ended.

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