[TheLion]

Your auto insurance is compulsory also along with your property taxes. What is the difference?

[Sybeck1]

Not in Mississippi.

[Ed_From_Ohio]

really? what states demand you carry liablity insurance on your own car?

[PresbyRev]

Property taxes are unconstitutional; it is a de facto assertion that the state owns all property - its subjects are only leasing it.

Auto insurance would seem to be a form of taxation or fee, like a toll, in order to use a public roadway.

Romney’s ‘health insurance mandate’ is many things, but not a free market approach to health care reform.

[libbylu]

Dear TheLion: The difference is the filters in perceptions of people who have already made up their minds. I haven’t heard all the crap that others have posted about Mitt.

[Caipirabob]

Your auto insurance is compulsory also along with your property taxes. What is the difference?

Driving is a privilege, not a necessity, although societal constraint may appear to make it look that way. You can "opt out" of driving and therefore not be required to carry insurance.

Property tax...GRRRRRR...I can't come up with a coherent debate on them. I'll get "froth" all over my keyboard. ; )

Hope it's not to cold for you way up North. Cheers!

[gidget7]

Car insurance is to protect others should you hit them. Health insurance does not cover others you “make” ill. The polices Mitt has mandated have deductibles of 2000. to 2500. No healthy person ever reaches the deductible to be able to use what they pay for each month, and that they cannot afford in the first place. They are made to purchase these useless policies, plus pay for their own checkups or visits for infection, and antibiotics etc. It helps them not at all. All it is is a tax to pay for the care illegals and the welfare people are getting for free.