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winston  ·  4619 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Broccoli and Bad Faith
    Here’s what Charles Fried — who was Ronald Reagan’s solicitor general — said in a recent interview with The Washington Post: “I’ve never understood why regulating by making people go buy something is somehow more intrusive than regulating by making them pay taxes and then giving it to them.”
This sums up my feelings on taxation vs. mandate perfectly. They are essentially the same thing. You cannot be opposed to the mandate and in support of medicare/medicaid.