Did everyone have to purchase it whether they were a sailor or not? No. To me this isn’t much different than car insurance. Want to drive on public roads? Buy insurance. There’s always an if attached to the requirement.
But I am impressed with how freaking far back you went.
They had to pay a FEDERAL tax if they wanted to work as a sailor…they couldn’t pick or choose their own option.
And they didn’t get the money back if they never got hurt or availed themselves of the medical services.
Your distinction is meaningless.
This requires a strong sense of personal responsibility, maturity and wisdom to make decisions going forward where you can take responsibility for the outcomes. There are many weak individuals among us that depend on the productivity of others, because their decisions are not conducive and coincide with their inherent right to pursue happiness.
I’ve told you you shouldn’t keep talking about yourself and your state-upheld business sector like that…
Gosh I’d love to see you attempt wear my shoes for just one day. Then again, too many would suffer. 
You think I couldn’t run a business that exists solely because of state regulations that inflate the average price of a car by about $3,000 and provides absolutely zero economic value to the customer in return?
I could easily do so…not that I would want to…I’d instead put those employees to more productive economic use.
You want me to stop telling people your business sector is upheld by the state?
Then stop making silly comments about how you succeed without government assistance.
It isn’t even a question my friend and your present attitude proves it. Over the years, I’ve observed many, many, many go bankrupt who spoke just like you. You don’t even know, how much you don’t know.
I know enough to know the industry you chose to work in (sorry…were set up to work in…I remember you willingly told us who got you started in this business, lest you try to pretend you built it all by yourself) would not exist without the state propping it up…yet you deign to lecture people about personal responsibility and over-dependence on government.
It isn’t meaningless. Everyone wasn’t required to buy insurance. You had to be a sailor.
It is meaningless.
Choose to work for a company that provides insurance benefits…then you won’t have to buy private insurance on your own.
If it happens to a subset of us…it happens to all of us.
And it was government telling private citizens in a private industry they had to pay a tax for something or else face the penalty of not being able to work in that industry.
And these were the men who actually wrote the Constitution saying they had the power to do this.
Keep mumbling your nonsense. Jealousy becomes you.
In most states you aren’t actually required to buy car insurance, you can post a bond instead.
No, he didn’t.
People think they are irreplaceable all the time. Everyone is replaceable in a company.
Yes he did. Flynn suggested it and trump considered it.
No, he didn’t.
Especially one the state props up.
Then again…Donald Trump went bankrupt running a casino…something I wouldn’t have thought possible.
It’s not whether or not you’re irreplaceable, it’s the bottom line that tells the story of that move, after that’s done.
Can you please tell me what this “state prop” is…and be specific where there’s no question of it’s positive impact and I’ll wait right here.
What he doesn’t know won’t hurt him. 
