Applied Indifference

This is an outrage.

Not satisfied with the McCain-Feingold incumbency protection act of 2002, House Republicans have decided that the 527 groups that Democrats were so successful with are a threat to their continued hold on power, and therefore must be regulated.

And again, I am forced to ask:

What part of “Congress shall make no law…” is beyond your miniscule intellectual capacity?

I have only one answer - these are the kids whose parents never said “no” to them when they were growing up, and therefore have no concept of what the word means.

At this point, I am hoping that the Democrats take the Congress (both houses) in 2006 so as to accelerate the destruction of this nation. Then we can rebuild a free society on the ashes of this once-great civilization.

For the first time in my adult life, I have no intention of voting. There’s nobody that even pretends to represent me any longer.

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I don’t need to wake up to news like this.

For those that haven’t heard - Mitt Romney, “Republican” governor of Massachussets has said he will sign a law that mandates that all persons “who can afford to” must purchase health insurance, or face the loss of their personal deduction on state income taxes until they’ve stored $10,000 in a state-controlled escrow account. They’ve finally figured out that healthy, single young men aren’t buying health insurance because, well, it’s not much of a bargain.

Their solution? FORCE those healthy young men to cough up the money so that other people’s unhealthy decisions can be subsidized. Why should a young, healthy person pay $300 a month for insurance, when better than 90% of what it covers is stuff they will never use. Of course - it’s a way of taxing one person to subsidize someone else, by calling it personal responsibility!

Calling compulsory insurance an “individual mandate” is perfect Marxist doublespeak. This is nothing more than the government, by force of arms, taking the earnings of one person to give to another. And the comments by supporters about the young healthy men (like me) who don’t buy insurance - trying to make us out to be leeches who feed from a system we don’t finance - are likely off base. I pay for all of my health care, out of pocket. I’d like to see the numbers of “well-paid” young men who skip out on medical debts. I’d also like to know why those debts (if they even exist) aren’t collected with the ferocity the state uses to collect on a speeding ticket.

This erstwhile conservative actually tries to gloss over the whole escrow issue. What part of “you cannot take my $10,000 from my pocket for something that I do not want” is beyond your comprehension here? Denying me the personal deduction on a tax that the state really had no right to collect in the first place is adding insult to injury.
This takedown of the plan however is much closer to reality.

Romney says “You’ll have choice, but your choices will have consequences.” But it’s apparent that the only choice here is to buy insurance, whether you want it or not.

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