Luddly Neddite
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dblack wroteAnd if I do that you can penalize me. The premise of mandatory insurance is that I will [not pay my bill], and that I should be punished for it in advance
Note that my understanding of your words is inside the [] and italicized. Do you agree that THAT is what you meant?
Personally, I think insurance of any and all kinds STINKS. But, I also believe its necessary because we really have not guarantee that (editorial) "you" will pay your bills. Just like the car insurance example, which is indeed appropriate, if you hit my car with your car and you are at fault, how do I know you will pay for the damage you caused?
Now we're getting somewhere. You've hit the nail on the head. This is the reason I started the thread!
You're right, we're not guaranteed that someone else won't do something that will cause us problems. That is the risk of living in a free society. It's the desire for that illusory, ironclad security that is leading us to piss away our freedom and acquiesce to totalitarian government. It leads us into indulging 'preventative law' that, instead of punishing people who do wrong, seeks to make it impossible for people to do wrong in the first place. But that approach is antithetical to freedom.
And what would you call it if I don't get paid for the damage you did to my car?
Or, if I'm a doctor, a hospital, what do you call it when I get stiffed for the bill you said you would pay? You said I should "penalize" you for non-pymt but if you're ignoring the bill, why would I believe you will pay any more attention to a "penalty"?
If you don't pay me for my services or my product, you are taking my freedom away.
You don't have that right. More to the point, how long will I be able to stay in business if I'm not paid? How will I get to work if you don't pay for the damage to my car?