Too Bad

[PearlWatson]

Driving is not an inherent right but living is.
Driving puts the lives of others at risk. Living doesn't.

Are you saying it is okay for the state government to force a driver to purchase insurance for liability reasons?

I don't know that I agree with that.
The state government should have no more right to force a contract/purchase than the feds.
It is states that have taken the Obamacare mandate to the Supreme Court, but who would have the funds and desire to fight each individual state on the car insurance mandate?

 

[franklin]

Are you saying it is okay for the state government to force a driver to purchase insurance for liability reasons?

I don't know that I agree with that.

Why not?

The state government should have no more right to force a contract/purchase than the feds.

Huh? States have rights the central government does not. That's a huge point of this whole system of local governance combined with sufficiently strong overriding central powers to keep things operational.

It is states that have taken the Obamacare mandate to the Supreme Court, but who would have the funds and desire to fight each individual state on the car insurance mandate?

You would only have to win the case against one state to make a mandate in the other 49 unconstitutional (i.e. Tennessee vs Garner).

 

[Stoked]

I read that they will probably make a decision today but that the decision will not be released until June or so. After they write their reports and findigns and circulate those thru the other justices.

Kind of interesting seeing how all that works.

 

[PearlWatson]

Why not?

Because it is still government coercion.

Huh? States have rights the central government does not. That's a huge point of this whole system of local governance combined with sufficiently strong overriding central powers to keep things operational.

You would only have to win the case against one state to make a mandate in the other 49 unconstitutional (i.e. Tennessee vs Garner).

The states don't have the right to do anything that is unconstitutional.
The constitution is used to strike down state law as you point out.

 

[Duck Rodgers]

https://dailycaller.com/2012/03/30/another-17-trillion-surprise-found-in-obamacare/

Senate Republican staffers continue to look though the 2010 health care reform law to see what’s in it, and their latest discovery is a massive $17 trillion funding gap .

If that number is accurate.....WOW.