My daughter rightfully pointed out that mandating a person buy something is akin to having to pay a fee in order to be alive. IOW, if you breath air, you must buy government health insurance.
How is this different than slavery?
Mandating someone buy something is unconstitutional because it takes your rights and choices away, and that’s what Obamacare does. It stifles competition and removes options. Why should the government ban incandescent light bulbs and leave me with the only option of buying those CFL bulbs? The government has no right to tell you what kind of car to drive, what kind of light bulbs to use, what kind of foods to eat, or what kind of TV to buy. And I shouldn’t have to be taxed to help subsidize those items for people who can’t afford them.
if you breath air, you must buy government health insurance.
How is this different than slavery?
What about the old Roe V. Wade argument? Women were entitled to right to privacy to kill their babies, but every American has to give their medical records to the government and have the government involved in everyone’s health care decisions?
I know this isn’t the angle they are going after, but seems like and oldie but a goodie.
I’m worried about the penalty / tax for not buying insurance argument. I read an article this weekend pointing out that FDR specifically made SS a tax to get around the commerce clause and that Obamacare modeled it the same way.
Sure sounds like "involuntary servitude" to me!!!