GOVERNMENT MANDATED HEALTH CARE

It is amazing that the state that the Puritans founded, and then instituted God’s law in is now devoid of any godliness. Beginning with the Supreme Court of Massachusetts mandating queer marriage to the state government mandating that those who can afford health insurance must purchase a policy or face being fined. The government of Massachusetts is taking away the individual’s freedom of choice.

Health care is an economic good. Health care is subject to the market. This means the law of supply and demand. If someone wants to have health insurance, this is an individual decision and it should not be a government coerced one. Individuals in Massachusetts are forced to buy a policy, possibly against their will. This is not a voluntary but an involuntary system. This is another example where there needs to be separation of economics from the government.

Recently, the Associated Press ran an article titled "5 Percent Still Without Health Ins." A quote from this article reads, "Five percent of Massachusetts taxpayers failed to obtain health coverage in 2007, and more than half of those, about 97,000, were forced to forfeit their personal exemption, worth $219, after it was determined they could have afforded health care."

If an individual did not earn enough money, they are not required to purchase health insurance.

This law is discriminatory against those who earn more than the government established

threshold. I guess the government needs to pass a law that says that one cannot be discriminated against because he makes a lot of money. Notice the coercion regarding the 97,000 that had to forfeit their personal exemption. The quote uses the word "forced." Being forced to do something means that it is against an individual’s will. This is what a government does, it uses its power of coercion. The individual’s freedom of choice has been taken away from him.

The fact that 95% complied with the law shows that citizen’s of the state of Massachusetts are not going to resist this law. They apparently do not care about their individual freedom of choice being stripped from them. The state of Massachusetts is a fascist state. The government will do whatever it wants because in the fascist state there are no absolutes other than the government doing absolutely as it pleases. The state of Massachusetts alone thinks it is sovereign.

SEPARATION OF SCHOOL AND STATE

It is time to get serious about cutting back the size of government. This can only take place when the functions of government are accurately defined. What the government has done is to be vague about the functions that they should be involved in. The one thing that they have done is to define all areas as political. This means that they get to control all facets of a nation. Their tentacles reach everywhere.

The government knows the best way to control its citizens is through the school system. To do this they must get the parents to give up control of their children. The government can do this very easily because they possess the power of coercion. Each state has its laws governing education. The Federal Government has the Department of Education. The only way to rein in the government is to have a change in the law concerning education.

There are those who have taken the bold step and have taken the responsibility of education away from the government. They should be commended for their efforts in limiting the size of the government. While most may not understand the implications involved in home schooling, one effect is that the school system is not receiving any government payments for their children. It is quite clear the more children that are home schooled, the less the citizens will have to pay in taxes.

People, however, are not interested in having their taxes lowered. They may complain about their rising property taxes, but this is the extent of their actions. Here is a shocker, the Washington County, Tennessee school system needs more money. When the school’s director proposed their original budget, the school system was $1.8 million out of balance. They were able to cut approximately $1.2 million, but still had a shortfall of $665,000.

The school’s director Ron Dykes has said that he cannot make anymore cuts without it affecting the quality of education in Washington County. His statement is totally fallacious. Let him define quality of education. Since quality and education are spiritual terms, he cannot quantify them in anyway. The commissioners of Washington County are easily duped by the term quality of education. They, like Dykes, have the same operating principles. They think in anti-conceptual terms.

Rather than doing the right thing by cutting more positions to balance the budget, Dykes has convinced the commission (this was not hard to do) to pass a property tax increase of $.16. At present, the tax rate is $2.35 per $100 of assessed property value. This makes the rate $2.51 per $100. If someone has a $100,000 assessment, this means that they will pay an additional $160 in property taxes. This is on top of rising prices for all commodities.

It is time to abolish the property tax. If people want their children educated, let them pay for it. What lawful right does the government have to take money from someone that does not have children in the school system? Our citizenry have contributed to the growing government control because they do not want the responsibility of raising their own children. They prefer to let the government raise them. They will pay for it too. Next year, the school system will ask for more money. Some things in life are predictable.

WHO DETERMINES PAY?

Barbara Kramer is economically challenged. Her thinking is perceptually based. Equal work for equal pay is anti-conceptual. It is undefinable. She is a feminist. Feminists are elitists and it is the poorer women who suffer from feminism (single mothers). Feminists resent being women. They do not like their station in life.

Kramer seeks to evade market realities. First, men do not get pregnant. Employers know that if they hire a woman (child bearing years), she may get pregnant and have to take time off from work. Second, most women’s income will be supplemental to their husbands. In other words, she will work for less money. It is women accepting lower pay that has caused the pay discrepancy.

The question is who should determine how much someone is paid? There are two options, the market or the government. Kramer resents reality (the market) determining her pay. She wants the government to determine how much people get paid. This can only be accomplished at the end of a gun.

If this Fair Pay Bill gets passed, two things will result. First, unemployment will rise among women. Kramer resents that the market discriminates. Second, there will be no incentive to produce because no matter how much you produce, your pay has been determined by the government, not the market. This means the market will become a place of mediocrity, not excellence.

The Fair Pay Bill would have the opposite result of what is intended. This is because of it being based upon a falsity of economic equality. The market is a place of inequality. People have different abilities and we benefit from these inequalities. Congratulations Senators Cocker and Alexander, you should be commended for looking out for our best interests.