16th July 2009, 9:22 PM
Is it me or did this alarmist socialism crap start in the '08 campaign? What people don't understand is that some socialist ideas make sense. Single payer health care (or a combination of private/public care, such as seen in France, which has one of the highest rated health care systems in the world) has the effect of costs being lowered, which is the main problem with health care in this country. And people think that a public option will eventually co-opt all users of private health care, and in the same breath say we can't have it because too inefficient. Wha? If it's so inefficient, people will have incentive to spend money on better health care offered by private enterprises.
And if there was absolutely no socialism in this country, corporations would run schools, firefighters, policemen, and a whole host of things that would be nothing more than disastrous. It's just a loaded word that pundits use it to give voters the willies.
And that crap about how people will have less incentive to make money if it will bump them into a higher tax bracket, and every dollar made above X thousand will be taxed at a higher rate, is bullshit. You're telling me that on principle, an entrepreneur would prefer no additional income because he could have made a bit more if taxes were lower?
And if there was absolutely no socialism in this country, corporations would run schools, firefighters, policemen, and a whole host of things that would be nothing more than disastrous. It's just a loaded word that pundits use it to give voters the willies.
And that crap about how people will have less incentive to make money if it will bump them into a higher tax bracket, and every dollar made above X thousand will be taxed at a higher rate, is bullshit. You're telling me that on principle, an entrepreneur would prefer no additional income because he could have made a bit more if taxes were lower?