[jazusamo]

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Thomas Sowell

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Poverty and Snow Storms
The Height of Utopianism
Kangaroo Courts on Campus?

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[fhayek]

Government policies to "bring down the cost of medical care" almost never bring down those costs, and often increase the costs. These policies simply refuse to pay the full costs of medical care. Any one of us can do that, but we know there will be consequences. There will also be consequences when the government refuses to pay the costs, but these consequences will be concealed and/or denied.

This is a very important point.

[oldbrowser]

Politics is the art of making the impossible seem possible, and even plausible and desirable. That is how ObamaCare got passed.

I don't think the dependent class is deceived. In spite of all, they just want to believe that if "they wish upon a star", they will be provided for and told what to do.

Now the independent class just wants to be left alone to make their own decisions.

[narses]

In Thomas Piketty’s highly-praised new book, “Capital in the Twenty-First Century” he asserts that the top tax rate under President Herbert Hoover was 25 percent. But Internal Revenue Service records show that it was 63 percent in 1932. If Piketty can’t even get his facts straight, why should his grandiose plans for confiscatory global taxation be taken seriously?

[boycott]

Class warfare rhetoric would have us resenting “the top ten percent” in income.

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I wonder how many democrats in congress are in “top ten percent?” My guess is all of them.

[jazusamo]

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[CincyRichieRich]

Eloquence and genius are a great combination; Sowell is gifted in both areas. This is one of the best editorials he’s written; I’d bet, too, it only took him about 10 minutes to jot the stuff down...that’s because he had already written the piece in his head. I wish I could have taken a class with either he or Williams teaching at college.

[Senator_Blutarski]

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[stevie_d_64]

“Will the Veterans Administration scandal wake up those people who have been blithely saying that what we need is a “single payer” system for medical care?”

Uhhhh, no...Because those people engineering this believe they are not to suffer much underneath such a burden...

As long as others suffer, and suffer right along with those without anyway who keep electing them into office...

Screw ‘em...

It is that simple...