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If making people buy commercial products is unconstitutional why do I?
Byhave to buy holding tanks, life jackets, and flares before I take my sailing yacht out of the slip. The coast guard can even stop me in International waters and give me a ticket anywhere in the world because I am American flagged.
It doesn’t even matter if I register in a State instead of getting Coast guard documents.
All regulated under the commerce clause even though mine is a private vessel.
You do not have to buy a car or a house. But houses catch on fire, and cars crash and you need medical help when they do. That is weak.
Down here in the keys many people live on islands with no roads to them and on boats themselves. Just because you say I don’t have to buy one does not make it so.
10 Comments
November 10th, 2010 at 12:06 am
Because buying a boat is an option. No one forced you to buy a boat. You had a choice. And your choice has other stipulations to help ensure your safety and safety of those who travel with you. It’s like a buying a car and the requirement to carry auto insurance.
No one was given a choice about being born. Living was forced on us. Buying safety equipment for a boat or auto insurance for a car is an action that is required in response to a choice you made. Forcing a health insurance purchase onto a person is an entirely different type of action since none of us had any say in being born.
November 10th, 2010 at 12:06 am
some times these safety measures are always added on to make few extra bucks cheap for the sellers
November 10th, 2010 at 12:06 am
You don’t have to boat. There is a choice. If you don’t want life jackets, don’t boat.
That was easy…>NEXT!
November 10th, 2010 at 12:06 am
My issue with this issue is: why are our affectionate DC desperado’s demanding we commit to pay in the first place? They create money out of thin air (monetized, of course…. How? and on what? We can’t ask that) so why not just create a pile or two to pay for our new medical bonanza?
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November 10th, 2010 at 12:06 am
I don’t believe that it be mandatory that you have to buy those either. I wouldn’t leave port without them, regardless of what the government told me, but it shouldn’t be mandatory. At some point people have to be responsible and figure out on their own what they need. If you feel safe out on the ocean without life jackets, and are willing to take the risk, who am I to tell you that you can’t.
November 10th, 2010 at 12:06 am
because you dont have to buy a boat.
as a liberal I believe the S.C. would overturn it for the mandatory to buy part
November 10th, 2010 at 12:06 am
Because there are people all over that think they have the right to tell others what to do. You think that is a good thing?
November 10th, 2010 at 12:06 am
Living in this country does not require you have a boat.
November 10th, 2010 at 12:06 am
Welcome to socialism. The rights and freedoms of the individual are subdued by the needs of the society as a whole. Your taxes are needed by the society so they can demand you preserve yourself, along with others, so much as possible.
It’s "for your own good," say your mommies and daddies in the capitols. The spoiled and sheltered little children in adult bodies our societies are today want mommies and daddies there so you are stuck with them too.
It’s all truly a good idea and could save your life and your family’s life, but we might agree that should be your choice. As society accepts ever more overseeing, we will get ever more overseeing and pay ever more taxes for it.
November 10th, 2010 at 12:06 am
You don’t have to buy those products if you don’t own a boat. Just like I don’t have to buy auto insurance if I don’t have a car.