I find this alarming as I am one who opted to drop my insurance over a year ago. I haven't used it in many years and just because I had another birthday they wanted to raise my rates to well over 600/mo !!!! ( My total monthly income after taxes is only a little over $1000.00 how can I possibly afford this insurance?) I find this totally unacceptable and chose to opt out since I don't use it anyways. Now if this becomes the trend its just one more freedom denied the american public. Take a look folks, we don't have a whole lot of our precious freedoms left, and those are disappearing quite rapidly, our government has become the enemy- how or why did we let this happen? zoe
> Massachusetts (Taxachusetts) has made a new law starting July 1, > 2007 stating that all residents age 18 and over must have health > insurance or face stiff tax penalties. I don't have to worry about > it because I already have insurance, but I am outraged. > This law preys upon the citizens to benefit the insurance industry. > I think this is unconstitutional, oppressive, and deplorable. It is archaic, > for crying out loud. > I called a senator's office this morning and I was told that the > whole country is going this way. I don't believe that B.S. for one > minute. This is not progressive leadership, it is regressive. This > is hard-line taxation burdening the people. > I am just ripping, but I don't know what to do about it. Any suggestions > folks? > Faith
