Investor's Business Daily posted an article yesterday talking about the proposed penalties for not having healthcare under the Obama healthcare proposal. Ordinary citizens are facing fines of up to $25,000 and a year in jail for not having healthcare or not paying the fine for not having healthcare. It sounded very far-fetched until I read the rest of the article.
The article cites the following case:
"Consider the Indiana grandmother arrested in July, four months after buying two boxes of cold medicine in less than a week. She ran afoul of a state law that prohibits the purchase of more than three grams of pseudoephedrine by one person in a seven-day period.
"Reports say Sally Harpold was simply buying Zyrtec-D and Mucinex-D for her husband and daughter, not to make or help anyone else make methamphetamine, an activity policymakers were trying to shut down when they passed the law. Yet she was arrested, handcuffed and booked anyway."
As someone with allergies married to someone with allergies and having children with allergies, I can totally relate to her plight. One package of 20 Claritan D used up more than half my allowance of pseudoephedrine for the week. If I go to the store today to get a package for my husband or one of my children, I risk being arrested. There is such a thing as too much government interference and too little common sense.
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