Any attempt at a rational discussion of the economic realities of government-controlled medical care is almost certain to run up against the trump card of the political left: The Poor. The image that is often invoked is that of the elderly poor, forced to choose between food and medical treatment. Who could be so heartless as to abandon them to the vagaries of the free market? This has proved to be a very effective political strategy for extending government power, not only over medical care but also over housing and other sectors of the economy.The phoniness of this argument becomes apparent the moment you suggest that money be set aside specifically for dealing with the special problems of the poor, rather than bringing whole sectors of the economy under the dominance of politicians, bureaucrats and judges. The amount of money needed to take care of the poor is often some minute fraction of what sweeping new government programs cost. But, while big government liberals are willing to use the poor as human shields in their political battles, their more basic strategy is to proclaim that everyone has a right to some basic need that they want the government to provide. As a matter of practical politics, programs for the poor alone do not have as large a constituency as programs to give everybody some benefit, so that we can all have the illusion of getting something for nothing
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The government deficit is the difference between the amount of money the government spends and the amount it has the nerve to collect.
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I've never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a 'fat cat' and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a 'public-spirited philanthropist'.
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In past years, the amount of money that has had to be been spent on armaments, great and small, instead of on productive industry and agricult...
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If advertisers spent the same amount of money on improving their products as they do on advertising then they wouldn't have to advertise them.
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Though it's an incredible amount of money, that's not what this is all about,
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Let advertisers spend the same amount of money improving their product that they do on advertising and they wouldn't have to advertise it.
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No amount of money can make others speak well of you behind your back.
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