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relax - this means you'll be eligible for free anti-govt-paranoia meds

.. which you so sorely need apparently. Sorry to be so presumptuous especially from this side of the Pacific (and hence maybe ignorant of different cultural mores) - but your objections to seat-belt laws and smoking laws seem utterly ridiculous. Any civilized society includes social regulation for citizen safety, duh.

OTOH I do notice the weird extremes in US society, including those of some ideologically-manic liberals, and so apologize if I am missing some vital point. However, my point about civilized societies still holds - in a balanced and smart sort of way.

Whatever reply you can come up with - I can't see how you would convincingly deny anti-seatbelt and anti-smoking-in-public places laws. Only unless you focus on some extreme or weird aspect of those, of which I am unaware.

In other words, unless I am really ignorant, you seem to suffer from anti-govt paranoia. Better you should focus on the fiscal costs of the new scheme, than on seemingly spurious anti-govt rants.

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