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stop tilting at windmills, the question is whether or not the government can force you to pay for a __PRIVATE__ service just for __EXISTING__ within the border
by P5fRxh5kUvp2th 4y ago
stop tilting at windmills,
the question is whether or not the government can force you to pay for a __PRIVATE__ service just for __EXISTING__ within the borders of the US.
There is __NO PRECEDENT__ for this. The closest you can get are things like car insurance where you're required to carry insurance in order to drive on US roads. You can choose not to drive, you cannot choose to "not exist".
That puts this into an entirely different category. The fact that it originally got rationalized as a tax opens a whole different can of worms. Good luck refusing to pay taxes.
- vkou 4y agoI'm entirely willing to accept that it's a bad law (It is, for multiple reasons - unfortunately, the situation without it is even worse), I'm simply drawing the line at claims that it's an illegal law (It's not, it's been pretty thoroughly litigated).
- P5fRxh5kUvp2th 4y agoI said unconstitutional, not illegal.