"This is perhaps the left’s most brilliant rhetorical feat – magically transforming failed corporate-statist half-measures they once championed into examples of the sorry state of the status quo and arguments for yet more statism. And you’ll see it again in about ten years, when well-meaning but dim liberals start calling federal subsidies for health-care coverage “socialism for rich insurance companies,” and argue that what we really need is a single-payer system.
This is why the right fought Obamacare tooth and nail. Not because we’re racist, or heartless, or socialist(!) We fought it because we know that statist intervention usually exacerbates the problems it is meant to fix, and worse, that it becomes the new normal, the baseline for bigger, more complex future expansions of state power. All this lets folks like my reader sleep easy, safe and sound in the knowledge that “at least we’re doing something for a change.”" - This is from an NRO Online blog post this morning. Read the rest here.
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