Quote from: OgNasty on Today at 10:36:28 PM

I love the word mandatory. It allows me to show people how powerless they are in influencing my personal decisions. As an American, it's absolutely hilarious that people think the government forcing anything on it's entire population is even a possibility. I'm seeing all these videos out of the EU of police carting old ladies off the streets and taking them to jail for not having their paperwork on them. All I can say is where I live that isn't even a concern... Our supreme court wouldn't ever allow such stupidity from our leadership and if they did my local community sure wouldn't comply. This is why we as Americans cling to our gun rights so strongly. It's important for the government to understand they work for us, not the other way around. Employers don't take orders from employees and the government is funded by it's citizens... At least until the liberals are able to enslave us all with universal income...

I absolutely agree..

However, the Federal government still penalizes individuals heavily via income-tax to force you to have health insurance.

And they now force you to report the mere possession of cryptocurrencies (assuming you are a person liable to file an income-tax form).