Reply #167: Perfectly said ~ and I'm still trying to grasp [View All]

[sabrina 1]

how any Democrat could support such a racket. And even more, how anyone calling themselves a Democrat, or Progressive or whatever name we have been bullied into using these days, could act as apologists for it.

I've more than you use the term 'protection money' and don't think the Republicans won't be using it also. Check out the studies done on the smaller version of this kind of system in Massachussetts, especially what is happening to those who cannot pay. The fines have gone up. They started out three years ago around $750 then increased to over $1,000, now they are expected to go up again.

The cynical use of the IRS to collect, what is an exorbitant sum of money to the working poor, is simply Machiavellian. I would really like to know whose idea that was. Soon, we will see people jailed as a result of this bill.

But YAY, killing two birds with one stone. We get to fill more jails with the poor, whose main crime in this country, is simply being poor. Democrats did this. I never thought I'd see the day, and with barely a whimper from anyone. Democracy really isn't a viable system of government in a country like this which glorifies money above all else.

Did you notice that even those who speak out against the bill, have had very little to say about 'Mandates'. Obama once called these fines 'unethical'. Where did that guy go?