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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: Lane3 who wrote (36661)5/9/2014 4:02:17 PM
From: Jack Be Quick  Read Replies (1) of 42652
 
>>... never to know the joy of accomplishment beyond the occasional good bowling score.

In your world all the targets of "tax and spend" policies are bowlers? Interesting.

As I understand it, a lot of the tax and spend money goes to government employees, and government employee pensioners. I would be surprised to hear that none of them ever manages to know the joy of accomplishment beyond the occasional good bowling score. While one might argue about how much they accomplish in their government jobs, and about how much should be paid for that, I think that your view of what they may be able to accomplish in life is rather limited.

A lot of the money also goes to pay farm subsidies. While some are paid not to farm, I was not aware that the subsidies were tied specifically to bowling.

And, a lot of the money goes to funding the military. I could see spending a whole lot less on that. Still, I don't imagine that that the soldiers and civilian employees in our military never know the joy of accomplishment beyond the occasional good bowling score.

All the money that has been shovelled out the door for "green" subsidies? Okay, no accomplishment whatsoever there. Maybe those big Obama donors who got all that money are spending their time at the bowling alley these days, trying to improve their scores. But I doubt it.

Interesting. I'll have to give this some thought. It's the first time I've ever heard this mentioned as a drawback of "tax and spend".
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