Reply #60: Uninformed straw man. You don't understand freedom of contract [View All]

[Leopolds Ghost]

Perhaps you are a mercantilist who believes taxes should be used to support
government-managed, marketized, commoditized, for-profit cartel economies.

You seem to think Edwards and Obama and Clinton plans would be paid for
out of payroll taxes, a straw man and a red herring (they are an unfunded
mandate directed against citizens who have a job but no insurance.)

Don't any of you guys understand that a mandated private purchase
is, BY SCIENTIFIC DEFINITION OF THE TERM, A SUBSIDY FOR THE SELLER?

They are not required to accept you, YOU are required to find one of
them willing to insure you and EVERYONE PAYS DOUBLE because, according
to BASIC ECONOMIC THEORY, the freedom NOT to purchase (i.e. freedom of
contract) is the buyer's only economic leverage. This is called
demand/price flexibility.

I know that native anti-intillectualism has found a home in the
postmodern center-left, meaning you will probably discount half
of what I said because it's unfamiliar to anyone who didn't take
Economics in high school.