About those mandates, I always thought that car insurance was a good comparison. If you don't have insurance and you get into an accident I believe you are in big trouble, and in trouble too if you get pulled over for the proverbial faulty tail light. You never hear anybody complain about the state mandating that all drivers carry insurance, and that is because nobody wants to get into an accident with somebody who has no insurance and are likely not to pay their share of the damages to your automobile.
As we all know if you have no insurance and end up in the hospital likely you won't be paying your bills, so that everybody else will have to pick up those bills. Does that sound right?
Well then how does a mandate, seeking to recover that money sound so bad? Why is that so terribly onerous? The cost was less than actually getting insurance, but high enough so that any reasonable person would just buy the insurance so that at least then they would have insurance if they ended up in a hospital and not have to suffer the shame of being a burden on their fellow citizens.
But somehow those who were a burden on their fellow citizens were looked upon as heroes or at least victims of the state by the rabid anti Obamacare forces just for exercising their god-given right of being a burden on everybody else.
Go figure.
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