>>When I asked you weeks ago how someone can state that health care coverage is a right, and yet levy new taxes against those who chose not to participate in the coverage....you replied, "Why don't you ask Mitt Romney".
If I asked that, the context would have been Mitt's own "Mittcare" proposals including individual mandate with garnishment of wages for people who refused to co-operate.
"I don't like calling it universal coverage. That smacks of Hillarycare. But I do think we've come up with a way to get everybody covered through the free-market system." Romney's way is not new: policy wonks call it an "individual mandate" system, but the Governor doesn't like that term either. "I call it a personal responsibility system," he said, then describing it as "the ultimate conservative idea" and proposing loss of personal tax exemption or garnishment of wages for people who refused to co-operate. Hence "ask Mitt."
Meanwhile back in the jungle: do you advocate revolution, or what is the solution to the ills you identify?
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
