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So, you are admitting that if you were a member of the "free state" legislature, you would work to overturn all seatbelt, speeding and drunk driving laws? I just want to be sure.

I certainly am.

Do you mind detailing how you'll handle the resulting spike in traffic fatalities, and how you expect the state to handle the medical costs and rising insurance costs that would inevitably result from overturning seatbelt, speeding and drunk driving laws? Just saying you did without them before and you can do without them again doesn't answer the specifics.

Those cases would be handled in the same way that they were handled before those kinds of laws were passed. Speed laws aren't stopping anyone from speeding right now anyway, and most drivers naturally drive at the speed which is safest for the road they'r driving on. Anyone who drives drunk and kills another person or wrecks a vehicle ewetc. will still be prosecuted and held accountable just as he would be today, so your point is really a false one.

OK, now we're getting somewhere. You haven't accounted for the insurance costs, etc. You said drunk drivers would still be held accountable just like today. Let's say a drunk driver hits someone and leaves that other person a quadriplegic. The drunk driver had no insurance and the victim either had no insurance, or inevitably he maxed out his private insurance (as a quadriplegic would do after a number of years). What type of state assistance would be available to the quadriplegic and his family? He would still get social security disability (since your state couldn't interfere with that federal program), and he would likely be eligible for Medicaid, but since your state will have abandoned a state income tax, where would the state find the revenues to care for this disabled victim? To put it another way, how would this victim and his family survive? Would private charity bear the brunt? To say it would be done the same as before doesn't take into consideration the enormous rise in medical costs and advanced technology--30 or 40 years ago, this quadriplegic would in all likelihood have died from his injuries.