I agree up to a point with letter writer Kenneth Towers about auto insurance. The compulsory auto insurance bill is unfair and unjust!
In no other area of business are customers marched up to the counter at bayonet-point to buy a product they may not want at a price they probably cannot afford. When California passed a mandatory insurance law, the insurance companies promptly increased the premiums and kept increasing them at about 20 percent a year until the people had had enough and passed Proposition 103 to roll the rates back. The insurance lobby spent $50 million on a campaign to defect Prop. 103. When it passed anyway, the insurance lobby immediately appealed to its political buddies in Sacramento, who stalled its
implementation for six months before finally repealing it.
I think the people of Illinois should fight mandatory auto insurance with all their might. It was passed by politicians in Springfield who were reached by the insurance lobby.
