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Financial Liberty Amendment
Why have we, as a nation, allowed our government not only to determine what types of insurance may or may not be available for purchase, but to determine what types of personal insurance, health and otherwise, we must buy? Are we dependents and wards of our government, that we must be supervised in our purchases in order to be properly cared for by our keepers, our guardians?
Why, likewise, should employers be required to purchase, for their employees, any goods or services that aren't directly related to their employment? Are we surfs or peons, and dependent on a lord for our perpetual care? Or do we all have a choice who we work for and who's land we live on, and a responsibility and right to each negotiate our own compensation?
From where do we get the belief, in the first place, that the government of a free country should, beyond providing a way - an infrastructure - for commerce, be involved in ensuring that we each have our own personal provisions?
What we need is a constitutional amendment that says that the government cannot require us (or anyone, on our behalf) to purchase any specific good or service which does not pertain to something we choose, outside of the common course of life itself, to enter into (this must include outside of becoming parents), and to something which does not create a compelling liability to others.
Yes, that would eliminate mandatory Social Security and mandatory unemployment insurance. No, with the caveats of "enter into" and "compelling liability", it does not eliminate Doctors' insurance, driver's/auto insurance, or smokestacks or filters for known dangerous pollutants. And for the millions who, failing to provide for themselves, would become a burden on society? Let the amendment say, in turn, that no person is entitled to support from any government entity, except, of course, as agreed to by specific contract or promise, or those who cannot provide for themselves and, therefore, are made wards of that government entity, such as the needy handicapped, and children in need.
Financial Liberty Amendment
Why have we, as a nation, allowed our government not only to determine what types of insurance may or may not be available for purchase, but to determine what types of personal insurance, health and otherwise, we must buy? Are we dependents and wards of our government, that we must be supervised in our purchases in order to be properly cared for by our keepers, our guardians?
Why, likewise, should employers be required to purchase, for their employees, any goods or services that aren't directly related to their employment? Are we surfs or peons, and dependent on a lord for our perpetual care? Or do we all have a choice who we work for and who's land we live on, and a responsibility and right to each negotiate our own compensation?
From where do we get the belief, in the first place, that the government of a free country should, beyond providing a way - an infrastructure - for commerce, be involved in ensuring that we each have our own personal provisions?
What we need is a constitutional amendment that says that the government cannot require us (or anyone, on our behalf) to purchase any specific good or service which does not pertain to something we choose, outside of the common course of life itself, to enter into (this must include outside of becoming parents), and to something which does not create a compelling liability to others.
Yes, that would eliminate mandatory Social Security and mandatory unemployment insurance. No, with the caveats of "enter into" and "compelling liability", it does not eliminate Doctors' insurance, driver's/auto insurance, or smokestacks or filters for known dangerous pollutants. And for the millions who, failing to provide for themselves, would become a burden on society? Let the amendment say, in turn, that no person is entitled to support from any government entity, except, of course, as agreed to by specific contract or promise, or those who cannot provide for themselves and, therefore, are made wards of that government entity, such as the needy handicapped, and children in need.