A case in point: Gingrich Backs Obamacare's Individual Mandate Requiring Health Insurance
Newt suggests it's like auto insurance. But for auto insurance you are (usually) required only to buy liability for damage you do to the other guys car.
Here, we are being required to buy insurance to avoid damage to the other guy's compassion. If we have health insurance, the other guy doesn't have to decide if he has to be compassionate towards us and help with the medical costs.
And, since the mandated payments we make will also subsidize other folks, we don't have the need to decide to be compassionate towards anyone else at all.
Talk about moral hazard... Nothing good will come from leaving all compassion issues to the government.
Thank you for #110, another point of view as to the costs of government mandates, it costs us our morality as well as wealth.