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Originally Posted by dksuddeth
My wife stands solidly behind my principles, so she is not being punished. I'm sure lots and lots of progressives are going to call myself and those who think like me ridiculous, or other less polite names, and that's fine. At some point, the progressives are either going to consider my death or imprisonment 'necessary' in order to continue their totalitarian agenda or they will have to reconsider what they are doing when enough of us are killed in the process of their enforcement. Either way, I stood by my principles while you live with my blood on your hands.
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I'm trying to understand the logic. The individual mandate for health care, which really only requires people to purchase private insurance, is somehow going to lead inexorably to a totalitarian state of government. That would be the same totalitarianism that refers to a type of government that has total control over all aspects of its citizen's lives. Let's ignore for the moment that getting from individual mandate to totalitarianism is a ludicrous leap.
So then, after you refuse to obey the laws of this country by engaging in tax evasion, and you either wind up in prison for a short time or are given a fine, we will have your blood somehow on our hands.
It's good to see that you were able to make a visit to the hyperbole fairy today.
P.S. It's really just that health care is what's being debated at the moment, right? Because somehow libertarians were able to stomach the federal income tax, state income tax, local property taxes, sales taxes, toll roads, mandatory car insurance, and innumerable other government sources of revenue up until this point. Something tells me that a few years from now most libertarians will be telling us that with universal health care now in place and precisely zero evidence of totalitarianism, the U.S. is thisclose to totalitarianism and god help us if we raise the marginal tax rate by half a percent.