So we should force people to buy something, whether they want it or not. Yes, this makes such good sense. Very reasonable and lucid. Quite brilliant actually. And not unconstitutional or immoral at all.
So we’re appealing to authority now? If we’re going to go that far you should at least pick actual strict libertarians. Hayek was pretty easily an ordoliberal, and Friedman…well, Friedman was just wrong on a number of things. (It wasn’t until shortly before he died (at age 94) before he finally conceded the Fed should be abolished.)
You mean like “hey, let’s have a bigger more burdensome government…we can afford it!”? Yeah, great plan. First of all, we can’t afford it. We have unfunded liabilities that overshadow global GDP.
But let’s also not forget you’re talking about an essential government takeover of the healthcare industry. It’s bad enough as it is, and Obamacare makes it ten times worse in just the form it’s written…but on top of that is a first step in the direction of a single-payer (i.e. government-controlled-run) system. They said so.