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Because making healthcare mandatory by law is a free market, and so is having local monopolies on internet access.

You sound an awful lot like the people who ask for tighter gun laws after a shooting in a gun-free zone.

Please don't make that argument about gun-free zones. In what world can we expect a person bent on mass homicide to respect municipal ordinance? Shooter: "Oh this sign says no guns? Darn, guess I'll abandon my murder spree then."

You're not serious right? Or maybe you just haven't yet explained what you really meant?

The analogy is roughly, 1) gov. makes law 2) markets acts opposite way as law intended 3) consumer requests more laws. "The no gun zone law didn't work, let's make the no gun zone bigger" vs "The local ISP monopoly law backfired, let's let the government invent more rules for ISPs"

We're on the same page. I was poking fun at the parent comment for exactly what you're poking fun at me for.

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