Ravi
Diamond Member
If you cheat on your taxes you can be imprisoned. Otherwise, no.They are not purchasing medicare.
They are paying a tax to fund a government program
so, is that what you see as the difference?
would it have been better for the gvt to make this a mandatory gvt handled plan, and just taxed us all for it?
btw, i am AGAINST the mandate but i don't see it as illegal or something they can not necessarily do....
The government has never to my knowledge required under threat of taxes, property confiscation and imprisonment citizens to purchase a product and they never should be able to.
If the government can force you to buy an insurance policy then it can force you to buy anything.
And yes if this was a government program that everyone was taxed to fund, it would be within the government power to do. Not that I want that but it would at least be completely legal.