I hear Margaret Thatcher said, “The trouble with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.” This is why health care reform, if it is a method for reducing some people’s medical bills by giving them the taxes taken from others, is only another problem, not a solution. Why do anti-trust laws not apply to insurance companies? Why are those companies bound by state lines? Is that not a tax-free way to increase competition, if that is the goal for health care reform?
But about socialism, here’s another good critique from the former prime minister:
“But what the honorable member is saying is that he would rather the poor were poorer provided the rich were less rich.”
Bingo. Thatcher sums up politicized class warfare in a single sentence.
Of course we come to this with the understanding that it never was our money, its all God’s.
That’s a great point for avoiding personal worry, but it doesn’t apply to the social principle. It is not just for the government to take a great deal from some citizens in order to subsidize the lives of other citizens, making them a special lower class in the process.
Yes, but not if you spend it on the bottomless pit of the world wide military-machine, and the INEVITABLR never-ending wars created by this death machine.
Fortunately, that isn’t being done. Talk to the Russians and Soviets about that. What we have in America now is a government which appears to have no financial foundation and may run our economy into the ground.