# Financing the Health Care Reform Plan

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**Created:** [March 24, 2010, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/financing-the-health-care-reform-plan/533617 "2010-03-24T13:24:19Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 24, 2010, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/financing-the-health-care-reform-plan/533617/14 "2010-03-24T16:25:00Z")

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> [@smiling\_bandit](#):
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> Which, if allowed to stand, will functionally be the end of human freedom in America. If the government can require to you buy insurance, whether you want it or not, you are no longer a citizen but functionally a _subject_. If allowed to stand, then Congress is our King and God and nothing in the Bill of Rights will matter a tinker’s damn.

That’s literally the silliest thing I’ve read all day.

Think of it this way. The government has increased taxes on everyone in the amount of the mandate penalty.  
Anyone who has health insurance gets a tax credit equal to the mandate penalty.

Does that quell the chicken-little-histrionics?

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