Can the Government Force You to Eat Broccoli?

Townhall.com ^ | March 29, 2012 | Judge Andrew Napolitano

[ctdonath2]

...and 3 presidents later, the federal government is contemplating saying “yes, you will.”

[BenLurkin]

Don’t give them ideas.

[andy58-in-nh]

Heh, heh. Back from when SNL was still really funny (Dana Carvey and Phil Hartman were two good reasons to watch).

Personally, I like broccoli - steamed, not boiled and smothered with Hollandaise... mmmm. But the day the government tells me to buy it, I'll find a way of turning it into an IED.

[ctdonath2]

That’s the problem I have with any form of a national sales tax: the feds will able to monitor, document, and tax/fine EVERY PURCHASE. Buy broccoli? tax credit. Buy beer? cross-referenced with federalized medical records for enhanced “unhealthy lifestyle” tax. Buy ammo? 200% “threat to society” tax plus a bump up the watch list.

The only reason smoking & obesity are triggers now is because they’re nigh unto impossible to conceal.

[Kaslin]

Personally, the government can not force me to eat broccoli, because I like the vegetable any which way

[montanajoe]

Granted the expense makes it a “problem” but it is the fact that many people game the system figuring if they really need health care they can just go to the emergency room and let someone else pay for it that is the bigger problem. Employers not providing health insurance will only make the the problem of folks freeloading on others worse.
Face it there is a ever growing portion of the American population who want other people to pay for their stuff irregardless of political ideology.

If this goes unchecked all the spending cut in the budget will never work as eventually the cost of free health care (that is paid for by the government) will bankrupt the federal state and local governments.

I spend alot of time in third world countries. There they have private hospitals where good care is available but you have to pay for it in advance. You can have gunshot wounds or massive head trauma and they wont treat you without payment. I've seen both laying on the street in front of these hospitals. The government runs some hospital where anyone can go but you are simply given a place to die.
In those countries children born prematurely or with birth defects die, folks suffering brain injuries resulting in coma or semi vegetative states die, old folks that fall and break a hip die the list goes on but the result is always the same they die if they can not pay up front.

This is where American health care is headed if the folks gaming the system continue to increase ....

[Mears]

“You can have gunshot wounds or massive head trauma and they wont treat you without payment. “

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I wonder if fatso Michael Moore is aware of this. Maybe he’ll make another movie.