I received notice that everyone must buy a car. No one would be able to rely on bicycles, motorcycles, horses, public transportation, or even their own feet any longer. Everyone had to get a car (government’s way to bail out the auto industry and lower the cost of vehicles). So, I went down to the local car lot to look around.
All they had were pea-soup green, two-door coups. Now, I have eight children, so a coup is hardly an appropriate car for my family.
And I hate pea-soup green.
But that is all they had and I had to buy a car.
After many complaints, I received notice form the powers that be, that I would be allowed to buy something else. So I went down to the local car dealer and looked around.
They did have a nice, white 15 passenger van for sale that I liked so I arranged to buy it.
When I received the bill, though, it listed the van AND a pea-soup green, two-door coup. I asked the dealer about the charge for the car I wasn’t buying. He said it didn’t matter. Everyone had to pay for the pea-soup green, two-door coups, whether they were buying one or not.
Something about keeping our important auto industry afloat.
Want to know what I am really talking about? Go back and replace pea-soup green, two-door coup with public school, the van with private school, and the alternate forms of transportation with homeschool.
Or replace pea-soup green, two-door coup with national health care, the van with private insurance and the alternates with, well, alternates (such as paying your own bill (what a novel idea), co-op ministries to pay each others bills, medical savings accounts, etc.)
Or simply add any other government program in there you want to.
They all eventually work the same way.
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