These are the kinds of abuses that happened long ago in Rome – perhaps the empire most like the US despite the age difference – and eventually Rome collapsed. We are told that barbarians over-ran Rome. But the reason they did so was because Roman citizens had lost the will to defend their civilization. It was so abusive and corrupt that those who were part of it had no desire to continue under it. The Cato article also explains that by exempting some targets from Obamacare but not others, the costs for some are being driven up to prohibitively high levels. Congress and the Obama administration should stop perverting the law generally by making it applicable to some but not others. Eventually what happened in Rome will surely happen in the US if this continues. People, seeing evident and obvious injustices, will withdraw the "consent of the governed." Conclusion: This is not an abstract or theoretical observation, but one grounded sadly in history. The mishandling of "Obamacare" is unfortunately symptomatic of a much larger sickness.
Posted on: Mon, 08 Jul 2013 17:27:14 +0000
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