Quote Originally Posted by nynco View Post
Tort reform should have been part of the over-regulation of the health care industry that is going on.
Again you guys don't seem to get the obvious. If you take away peoples rights to sue in your "tort reform" there is no system that is functional in the tort cases that will ever stop a company from doing as they please.
One thing I really can't stand about liberals is the constant use of the strawman argument. A strawman is where a position is misrepresented as something it isn't, then attacked. In this case, the poster says tort reform is "taking away peoples right to sue". Absolute BS. Nobody, and I mean nobody, is proposing Tort Reform and limiting a "right to sue".If the poster is intellectually honest, he will explain exactly how Tort reform takes away "peoples right to sue". He can't.

A more recent example of strawman arguments is the Democrat Party saying that Republicans want to take a way a woman's right to birth control. Again, couldn't be further from the truth, but it certainly fires up the base, no doubt about it. The reality is they want all taxpayers to fund free contraceptives (and abortion, for that matter) - even those who are morally and religiously opposed to that. The posit the strawman, since making the true argument as I stated above won't have the same effect. So demagogue and lie to your hearts content.

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