Many of "us" don't wear our seatbelt as shown by the fact that eleven more will die this year because they don't than would if they did. The culture of those who die, not wearing seat belts is over. If sticking a popsicle stick in the tail pipe of your car would keep these individuals alive, wouldn't that be a good thing? All this hogwash about the superiority of some fantasmagorical freedom ethic is the same kind of hogwash that has forty four percent of the state registered as "unenrolled." It is a pathetic attempt to paint an unwillingness to get up off the couch, turn off the TV and exert some effort and shield the laziness with a philosophical pillow. You say you and many wear a seatbelt even though there is no law necessitating it. Sounds like more hogwash. I don't think you do. I know that many don't. I know that in other states, which have a seat belt law, deaths are lowered. Why aren't you even more proud as your head goes through the windshield that you lived free and died as you both upheld this hogwash principle and stood up against the law. Next you could drive over and stand with the Browns and say that there is no law requiring income tax. Earth calling Patrick.

Xteeth (Robert), many of us always wear our seatbelt. Studies indicate that we are safer if we do. Some of us do it to keep insurance rates down. But there is a culture in this Great State - the "live free or die" culture. There is something unique (and admirable) about a State that refuses to cower to federal power at the expense of federal funds. It's not laziness, and it's not stupidity either. It's freedom of choice. It's a political statement, and it's rather impressive. The same goes for the helmet law. I expect, however, that if it came down to it, New Hampshirites would rather enact a seatbelt law to get federal funds rather than instituting a broad-based tax. Until that time, I suspect that our freedom-loving citizenry will remain steadfast in protecting, well, freedom.