[iontheball]

I hated this article - queasy thesis, wrong conclusion.
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I call the weak brained analysis verbal gymnastics. I do not care how they characterize it, forcing someone to buy something under duress, which means you are using state action to steal his personal property, has to be unconstitutional.

[bigbob]

Isn’t that what every tax does? We are “forced” to buy fire trucks, police uniforms, road graders...and pay people to use them. If you fail to pay, what happens?

[C. Edmund Wright]

yes, verbal gymnastics...intellectual gymnastics too - he was trying to be too smart by half.