[timm22]

Well, in a democracy we decide how to allocate the burden. And the vast majority has decided that ability to pay is releveant, and cross subsidization is acceptable. If you don't like it, move to Hong Kong.

And if the vast majority decides that handguns must be banned, or that you're not allowed to be a Methodist in this country, should gun owners and Methodists just have to leave?

[Torie]

Well that will also require a couple of SCOTUS decisions. But yes, if that happens, I would leave, particularly if a religion is banned. That would mean the country has evolved in ways that are profoundly alien to its tradition. And that won't happen in my lifetime, so it is entirely a hypothetical.