How do we pay for this?
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like this
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blog...-bankrupt-america-to-the-tune-of-18-trillion/
"The conservatives who are acting appalled at the number the Journal came up with are also the same people who never seem to care what a tax cut costs, because they think cutting taxes is a moral and practical good, in the same way that liberals think providing people with health coverage is a moral and practical good. "
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blog...-bankrupt-america-to-the-tune-of-18-trillion/
"The conservatives who are acting appalled at the number the Journal came up with are also the same people who never seem to care what a tax cut costs, because they think cutting taxes is a moral and practical good, in the same way that liberals think providing people with health coverage is a moral and practical good. "
Tax cuts aren't a cost bc a cut is a reduction in a cost. That quote is like arguing of a number can be defined and known in mathematics.
There is so much wrong with that article it hurts to read it. His main point is trying to say that Bernies plan is a zero sum game; that he's just transferring what is already spent in the private sector and moving it to the government where it can be spread out among everyone. The dangers of this are staggering.
I was writing a long counter to all of the weak points but it boils down to the fallacy that the government is some beneficent entity that holds society's best interest paramount. And a wild misunderstanding of how economics and government works. But hey, common good and WaPo.
That sound bite that Bernie keeps saying that it's just cost shifting is as retarded as that liberals line about a tax cut is a costs.
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