The user is, primarily, the problem, security-wise. Giving the user the ability to opt out of the security defeats it, because had they not been a problem to start with, the security would not likely be necessary.

The idea that need can be determined by bid price assumes everyone has equal resources with which to bid.

If someone is auctioning off a steak, and you are starving and have no money and I am wealthy and not hungry, the fact that I can bid $5 for the steak and you can bid $1 does not mean I need it five times more than you.

Quite the opposite, in fact.

Replace "France" with "Mexico", and "Drunk driving" with "shooting a DEA agent", and you have, in fact, got something the US has done at least once or twice in the past.

Or, perhaps, replace "France" with "Pakistan", and "Drunk driving" with "Organizing terrorist plots", and you've got something the US did fairly recently and made a big show of...

The government via escheat, presumably.

Firefox routinely hits between one and two gigs with a half-dozen to a dozen tabs open for me, as well- give it 9-12 hours, and it's unmanageable.

It's not an attempt you'll survive, however. If you start shooting at a SWAT team as they attempt to serve a warrant and arrest you, they'll start shooting back- and you'll be dead.

The comparison to national health care doesn't quite fit though, because the question there is whether the US federal government has lawful authority under the Constitution to order people to buy things. It definitely does not, if the Constitution is still a meaningful limit on federal power.

Er, according to whom? Why wouldn't the constitution give the federal government the right to demand specific performance?

And what do you do for a living?

You'd probably cure the budget deficit (but possibly not; it's a substantial deficit) but you'd collapse the economy. Have fun with that.

The problem is that you believe the constitution is an agreement between sovereign states; it is not. It is, in fact, something entirely different. The states gave up their sovereignty to form the United States, which is a new sovereign entity, with its role described in, but not created by the constitution.