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Politics : A Real American President: Donald Trump -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: DMaA who wrote (129573)	4/1/2019 12:40:10 PM
From: sm1th	Respond to of 456313

That word "entitled" I think it does not mean what they think it means. From a long but worthwhile essay at Claremont claremont.org For all of the fretting about partisan polarization, we have achieved solid bipartisan agreement on perhaps the most significant feature of domestic policy: to maintain an extensive welfare state, not to pay for it, and not to talk about what we are doing. Cutting the link between tax revenues and transfer payments unleashes many pathologies that undermine political unity. Public officials are much less constrained to police against waste and fraud, or to resist extending benefits to ever-larger categories of citizens. Liberal progressives are free to pretend that payments to ordinary folks are being paid by the taxes of rich people and corporations, and that higher taxes would permit more generous payments (such as “Medicare for All!”). Conservatives are free to pretend that goosing economic growth, especially by lowering taxes, would permit painless retirement of our debts.