Individual Mandate Foe Inadvertently Refutes Self

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Forcing Citizens to by Health Insurance by way of threatening Fines & Imprisonment is just plain Un-American. Republicans who supported that are just as stupid & wrong as Democrats who support that. It should be ruled Unconstitutional. Hopefully the Courts will make the right decision. We'll see i guess.

 

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It seems a number of republicans were for the individual mandate before.

Individual Mandate Foe Inadvertently Refutes Self | The New Republic

Jonathan ChaitFebruary 2, 2011 | 3:52 pm 5 comments

National Review's Iain Murray argues, "Now that the individual mandate has been found ...


Wait. He's citing a paper criticizing the Republican health care plan, co-sponsored by arch-conservative Don Nickles, for including an individual mandate. Murray seems to think this refutes the fact that Republicans used to support the individual mandate.

Now, clearly, there were some fringe elements on the right who opposed an individual mandate (though not until until the entire GOP had abandoned the idea for political reasons did any of them think to argue it was actually unconstitutional .) The point is that Republicans, even very conservative Republicans, both created and supported the individual mandate for years before deciding en masse it was not only undesirable but an affront to liberty and the Constitution.

 

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Old news and the republitards were wrong.

Stealing a stupid idea and making it part of their "plan" simply shows to go ya that, even though the republitards are the party of stupid ideas, the demotards are the party of no ideas.

"The point is that Republicans, even very conservative Republicans, both created and supported the individual mandate for years before deciding en masse it was not only undesirable but an affront to liberty and the Constitution." -OP



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