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To: Leatherneck_MT
Unlike you I don't try to spread my socialist dogma on everyone else and insist that they do as I say because it will lower my insurance rates. Number one that's a bald faced lie. Not one insurance rate has ever been reduced due to the population as a whole wearing seatbelts.

See my post #325. Saving over a half a trillion dollars in medical costs is not a bald faced lie.

How is a seat belt law different from a speeding law? They are both safety issues, they are both personal decisions and they both affect other peoples safety. Socialism has nothing to do with either of these laws.

Why is it OK to have speed limits, but not seat belt laws.

333 posted on 05/31/2006 12:49:20 PM PDT by Tokra (I think I'll retire to Bedlam.)
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To: Tokra

Tokra, the lie comes in when the insurance companies pocket the price savings rather than passing on the savings to premium payers.


345 posted on 05/31/2006 12:56:20 PM PDT by BlueStateDepression
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To: Tokra
and they both affect other peoples safety.

What BS

Socialism has nothing to do with either of these laws.

Correct, it's NANNYSTATISM. And modern liberalism.

Why is it OK to have speed limits, but not seat belt laws.

One violates others rights, one doesn't.

357 posted on 05/31/2006 1:00:52 PM PDT by Protagoras ("A real decision is measured by the fact that you have taken a new action"... Tony Robbins)
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To: Tokra

How is a seat belt law different from a speeding law? They are both safety issues, they are both personal decisions and they both affect other peoples safety.



Seatbelts have little or no effect on the safety of those other than the person deciding whether to wear one.

If you want any reasonable person to believe otherwise, you'll need something other than your made-up hypothesis that defies common sense.


364 posted on 05/31/2006 1:04:20 PM PDT by Atlas Sneezed (Your FRiendly FReeper Patent Attorney)
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To: Tokra

"Why is it OK to have speed limits, but not seat belt laws."

You can't be serious.

In case you are, let me put it this way: the purpose of the government is to protect our borders from invasion and protect us from each other.

The speed limit satisfies number two. The seat belt laws are out of scope of the purpose of the government - at least they are in a free society, which we clearly are not.


393 posted on 05/31/2006 1:27:12 PM PDT by RobRoy
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To: Tokra

If you don't know the difference between a seat belt law and a speed limit then this conversation is pointless.


404 posted on 05/31/2006 1:40:01 PM PDT by Leatherneck_MT (In a world where Carpenters come back from the dead, ALL things are possible.)
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