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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TimF who wrote (2327)	10/25/2007 3:41:30 PM
From: Mary Cluney	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

<<<Greg Makiw, who doesn't want to greatly increase redistribution, none the less suggested a better way>>> Reasonable people can disagree. My point was that the great majority of mainstream economists disagree with your point of view. You would never know that by reading opinions on this thread. As George Makiw himself explains his unorthodox views: "the people making the incorrect assumption about my party affiliation are reasonable, mainstream economists who happen also to be Democrats. Based on my textbooks and other writings, they viewed me as a reasonable, mainstream economist like them and jumped to the conclusion that I must be a Democrat as well. The reason I am a Republican is that, compared to Democrats, the Republicans tend to favor smaller government, lower taxes, and greater reliance on free markets. On many social issues, I find myself agreeing with the Democrats more than the Republicans, and I know that the Republicans are far from perfect on economic issues. (Don't get me started.) "