Of Course The State Can Make You Buy Stuff
Posted on December 15, 2010 by Mike P
A couple of days ago a man named Henry Hudson, who claims to be
something called a "federal judge", struck down a part of the new
so-called "health care bill" that would force so-called "citizens" to
buy health insurance from state approved companies. The argument he used
was interesting. His claim was that the government lacks the enumerated
powers from the constitution to mandate that so-called "citizens"
purchase health insurance. Of course Mr. Hudson has no problem with the
government mandating that people be forced to buy his "services" even
though I doubt there is a phrase in the constitution that specifically
allows for this.
While it may be true that there is no actual phrase in the constitution
that says that the so-called "federal government" can force individuals
to purchase health insurance, this is still a silly argument. Of course
the government can do this. They have the guns. They can force people to
buy anything they want. In fact, forcing people to buy stuff is all they
do. They could not exist without the power to force people to purchase
stuff they would otherwise not purchase.
In reality the state is nothing more than a group of men and women that
force everyone else to buy services from them. So even if the document
that they claim is the foundation of their law, the constitution, does
not give them permission to do this, so what? Why should they care? They
have a monopoly on interpreting and applying the constitution. No one
else gets to do this. So as you would predict given this situation, they
have been interpreting it in favor of themselves for years, if not
outright ignoring it. It really is an irrelevant document. 250 year old
parchment is not going to stop bullets.
The foundation of the power of the state is force, not law. It is silly
to think they will not do something just because the constitution does
not grant them the power. Their power does not come from the
constitution! It comes out of the barrel of a gun. And, as you would
predict, they use that gun to take money from people. Of course to make
this scam look good they pretend to provide services to people in
exchange for this money and they claim that these services are necessary
for the functioning of society. They also do this to fool themselves. No
one wants to think they are an immoral thief, and no one wants to think
they are a victim. So there is a psychological "let's pretend game"
played around the constitution by both masters and slaves in order that
both can pretend that the relationship is something other than it is.
Political activists, minarchists, constitutionalists, libertarians,
conservatives, and sometimes even liberals all pretend that the
constitution is what the government bases its power on, and so-called
"federal judges" pretend to make court rulings based on it. This way
both parties can pretend that the gun is not in the room and avoid
facing the psychological and moral consequences.
The government forces people to buy stuff all the time. Henry Hudson
himself forces you and me to buy the "services" he claims to offer as a
judge despite the fact that I have never requested these services, I
don't want them, I can't afford them and Hudson is in no way actually
obligated to provide them to anyone. The government forces people to buy
the "service" of firing missiles at impoverished Pakistani villagers
from robot planes despite the fact that the same circumstances as above
apply here. Not only is this a dubious service, it is morally horrifying
and something no decent person would be involved in unless they were
forced. The government forces people to buy the "services" of so-called
"public schools" even if they don't have kids and can't even use these
schools as a babysitting service. And of course the government forces
everyone to buy the service of police protection from them and them
alone, even though they recognize absolutely no legal obligation to
provide this service. So what is health insurance on top of all this?
Some people have made the argument that in this case the government is
forcing people to purchase something from a third party, which is why it
is invalid. But that is irrelevant. Who cares if they force you to buy
services from themselves or a third party that has paid them money to
force you to buy their product? You are being stolen from either way.
The issue is the force, not what is being forced or who is benefiting.
That is what we should be focusing on and objecting to, not the
particular service that we are being forced to buy.
http://theemptiness.info/2010/12/of-course-the-state-can-make-you-buy-stuff/
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