Hot Heat*(1949)
*This movie title has been edited for your thought-security. Dept. of Homeland Security, 2012
Posted on 09/26/2009 3:39:18 PM PDT by kathsua
Ultimately the government's ability to force people to comply with its regulations involves the threat of imprisoning those who refuse to comply. If the Democrat controlled Congress decides to arbitrarily force some people to purchase health insurance will it adopt severe measures to insure compliance with its requirement.
Will any government requirement to purchase health insurance include the threat to imprison those who refuse to purchase insurance or pay a fine? Will government confiscate money or property from those who refuse to purchase health insurance or pay a fine?
President Barack Obama falsely compares the purchase of health insurance to auto liability insurance. "What it's saying is ... that we're not going to have other people carrying your burdens for you any more than the fact that right now everybody in America, just about, has to get auto insurance," he said.
I don't know if Obama is deliberately lying or he is so ignorant he doesn't understand the difference between auto liability insurance and personal health insurance.
States don't require everyone to purchase auto liability insurance. States only impose the requirement on those who want to own and drive motor vehicles to insure that drivers who cause injury or property damage will be able to compensate those who suffer loses. Motorists typically have the option of substituting proof of financial responsibility, such as posting a cash bond, in lieu of insurance.
Different couples with the same income might not have the same ability to pay for health care. A young couple might have two large student loans to pay off and still want to start purchasing a house or newer vehicles. A couple might decide to take the risk of going without health and life insurance to start their own business. Some couples may be providing assistance to a disabled parent.
Many of those who could afford insurance do without it because they believe their healthy lifestyles reduces their need for medical care. They don't want to have to pay to subsidize the habits that increase medical costs like smoking, unhealthy eating and drinking habits, failure to exercise, etc. Insurance companies use money taken from healthy people to pay for the medical care of unhealthy people. Democrats who favor compulsory insurance should ask themselves if they want to be forced to pay for Rush Limbaugh's prescriptions.
Who is best able to determine if someone can purchase health insurance -- wealthy members of Congress, government bureaucrats or individual couples?
I think that people should be imprisoned for failure to obey the Dear Leader, or for publicly disagreeing with the Chosen One. Such things should not be tolerated.
Heil Obama!
What about the Amish, Old Order Mennonites and others who insure through their churches? Will whole churches, whole comunities be imprisoned?
We need to look at setting up extremely limited computer access Freeper chapters in prisons for those of us who are going for ignoring these communists.
Come and get me, coppers!
Civil disobedience is good now and then. Properly orchestrated it can move mountains.
What will they do when thousands blow them off? Or more?
We have a few years to figure this out and make plans with our loved ones before the hammer falls.
Would I go to the joint for liberty? You bet yer a$$!
Aw heck, throw me in jail. I need a vacation.
TOP OF THE WORLD, MA!
This requirement is clearly unconstitutional based upon Article I, Section 9 - “No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed.”
It won’t be a jail...it will be a CAMP, where you may “work” to satisfy your debt to the collective.
We know...except that with this prez and this congress, if I may paraphrase: “We don’t need no steekin’ Constitution!!”
Well of course everyone will be thrown in jail except the illegal aliens.
Right it would have to be camps not jails. The camp for bad girls and boys.
They don’t need jail to get people to comply. Making it financially difficult for non-compliance will do the job.
I hear that you get free health coverage in prison ...
They’re just going to use it to confiscate your property. Instead of jailing you, they will impose a fine, and if you refuse to pay then they dock your pay, and if you don’t have a wage job they can parasitize, they will put a lien on your property, and if you don’t pay they will sell your property at auction to their cronies. They’re after the money. If they resort to jailing people, it will only be after ripping you off first. And then only a few people, separated far from eachother, may be jailed to gin up more fear so people submit quietly to the theft. I don’t expect them to try mass jailings because that would inspire people to organize against the communists.
That’s why we need to stick together now. Otherwise they will pass this scheme and devour everything one bite at a time.
I think any fines will be payable to the IRS. That way any noncompliance is treated as tax evasion and the noncomplier gets the full force of the IRS against him.
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