re: #17 NJDhockeyfan

I thought the left was against a flat tax. What gives? This still doesn’t answer the question of where the government has the right to force people to buy anything.

I’m against using a flat tax as the only singular tax that is instituted.

You’re right on its own as a flat tax it probably has some problems but we could offset that by also giving tax credits to those who are too pour to afford insurance.

Either way NJD it all comes down to how do you define “force” does the government has a right to tax people for committing certain activities it wants to discourage ?

The fact that there are “sin taxes” on smoking would argue “yes’ and therefor it seems not unreasonsable that the government could tax you for doing something it wishes to discourage, going without insurance…