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March 07, 2005

These guys chose the right symbol: a reptile.

This column by Linda Shrock Taylor perfectly illustrates the injustice inherent in compulsory liability laws. They, like every other sweetheart deal a law or regulation gives to a corporate interest, ultimately winds up gouging those it was meant to protect. I would much rather risk being hit by an uninsured driver (after all, it is my responsibility to look out for myself on the public roadways and insure against loss, not anyone else's, even if the accident is their fault) than support the corrupt insurance companies who are more than willing to extort money from me on any pretext whatever, as Ms. Taylor so ably illustrates with the interrogation she had to undergo about things which had nothing whatever to do with the matter at hand, namely, insuring her cars and teenage son. GEICO, and companies like them, benefit from these clearly special-interest-driven laws which infringe on the rights of individuals to move freely on the roads they have already been extorted from to build.

Posted by Patrick Yancey at March 7, 2005 04:08 PM

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