[Steve_Seattle]

"Apples and kumquats comparison...

Auto insurance is optional, based on whether or not you choose to operate a motor vehicle. There is no law MANDATING that you MUST operate a motor vehicle, thus requiring vehicle insurance.

Nice try, but the vast majority of adults drive trucks, automobiles, or motorcycles and do not consider it "optional" even if in your imaginary world it is technically optional. Motor vehicles are absolutely essential for modern commerce and to call them "optional" is playing with words. In your view, virtually any mandatory law - building codes, zoning regulations, all fees and taxes - is equivalent to "socialism."

[SZonian]

The person used auto vs. health insurance as his argument, not me. The last paragraph in your comment are your words, not mine.

I don’t HAVE to drive and along with that comes all manner of perceived “inconveniences”. So be it...again, I (me personally) DON’T HAVE TO DRIVE. I can choose alternative methods to get along/around.

Thus, auto insurance is not compulsory or mandatory for me to get along in life. If I CHOOSE to engage in behavior that requires licensing or following legislation of some sort, then so be it, I’m under the government’s thumb.

But for simply being born, existing in the USA, we are now FORCED to purchase insurance.

I stand by my original premise/response, one that is supported by numerous other FReepers and the simple fact that, in spite of the overwhelming evidence to the contrary, I consider myself a free man, a citizen, not a subject.