Posted on 11/08/2014 8:14:37 PM PST by Steelfish
BUMP
” Yup, I think you’ve nailed it. Kill the mandates, which aren’t popular to begin with, and the ACA begins to starve. It also ought to be fairly easy to nibble away at the program by targeting other funding mechanisms, like the medical device tax. The votes to repeal this legislative abomination outright might not be there, but it is very possible to begin to “starve the beast.””
Bingo
Of course Fascism will increase stock prices.
Fascist economics is corporatist crony capitalism. Gvt in control and calling the shots, but the means of production and delivery remaining in private hands. And gvt gets to pick the corporate winners and losers.
The question in that scenerio is whether the GOP caves to pressure to expand the subsidies.
They better damn well have an alternative that they can put forward, that Conservatives can rally around and can use to fend off that pressure. Sitting back and doing nothing may be a preferable option, but it’s a political loser.
When the government gets involved in banking and Wall Street through mandates and bailouts it is de facto Fascism. As Hayek said in “The Road To Serfdom,” Communism and Fascism are the same thing when we cut through the crap — my interpretation, and I would add to that Keynesian economics and “Third Way” Socialism that characterizes modern liberalism.
I said it first.
:)
OK : )
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