Posted on 12/18/2010 8:03:56 PM PST by Nachum
Gordon Peterson on Friday asked either a staggeringly ignorant or intentionally provocative question.
On the most recent installment of PBS's "Inside Washington," the host queried his guests, "Why is it constitutional to require Americans to buy automobile insurance but un-Constitutional to force them to buy health insurance?" (video follows with transcript and commentary): ---
GORDON PETERSON, HOST: That’s Ken Cuccinelli. He’s the attorney general of Virginia. He brought the challenge to ObamaCare. The federal court and judge Henry Hudson of Virginia ruled it’s un-Constitutional to force Americans to buy health insurance, as the law mandates. Why is it constitutional to require Americans to buy automobile insurance but un-Constitutional to force them to buy health insurance?
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Health insurance choices involves personal survival and ObamaCare limits those choices and penalizes anyone
who forgoes it. Car insurance doesn’t work remotely like that.
If you don’t want a car you are not forced to buy insurance!
If you do you get to choose the insurance at the best price!
The 10th amendment says the federal government doesn’t have that power.
The states do have that power.
It is NOT constitutional for the Federal government to force people to buy car insurance and they don't.
It is NOT constitutional for the Federal government to force the people to buy anything, eat anything, wear anything, say anything, worship anything, love anyone, hate anyone, like anyone, or live anywhere.
2. To avoid paying "manditory insurance" all you have to do is not drive or own a car.
3. People who don't own or drive are not required to carry insurance in order to cover people who do.
Local and state governments have the power to do things that are prohibited to the feds.
My neighbor had a non-working car in her driveway. Since she wasn’t driving it, she didn’t renew the registration. A cop came onto her driveway, observed the out-of-date sticker, and gave her a ticket.
No insurance, tags, safety equipment, pollution-control equipment, etc. required for anything you operate only on your own property.
Operating it on your own property, you assume full liability for any injuries or damage caused by its operation.
How many riding lawn-mowers do you see with license plates?
He is after all a Washington insider so I have to assume he lives in that DC bubble and really thought it was a liberal gotcha talking point
One man’s freedom extends as far as the outer perimeter of the next man’s freedom.
Additionally, there are a number of “pre-existing conditions “ that actually prevent you from obtaining car insurance— like six DWI’s and a revoked license.
States can require it ,you can move if you want too,the Federal Govt is different if they mandate it you cant go anywhere.
Something like those powers not specifically enumerated in the Constitution are reserved to the states and to the people. It doesnt say except in Health Care
ok...so we have to have insurance to walk down the street?
No, but government does not have the right to restrict either. Driving is no different than walking down the street. A person needs to go from point A to point B in their life and our Constitution permits us to travel freely without government interference.
I’m guessing the biggest offenders on the auto insurance requirement are some of Baraq’s strongest supporters, inner city and illegals.
Ding Ding Ding!
You Win!
Nice answer.
You do indeed have a RIGHT to operate a motor vehicle on public roads.
It’s a strange ethos that forces a you into the whimsy of what others think must be done to you protect them from you.
Because of the 10th Amendment, it is a State authority, not a federal authority, to require certain automobile insurance coverage under specified circumstances.
The federal government has no Constitutional authority to require any individual to purchase anything.
No matter how true some of the other arguments are, they are irrelevant.
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