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The complaint from the right is that the federal government confiscates the wealth of its citizens and redistributes it, presumably suboptimally. No, that's th
by camccann 17y ago
The complaint from the right is that the federal government confiscates the wealth of its citizens and redistributes it, presumably suboptimally.
No, that's the complaint from the Libertarians. The complaint from most of the right wing is that it redistributes to the wrong people (e.g., ones who vote Democrat).
In particular, old people tend to vote more right-wing, so you're raving mad if you think they'd ever oppose Medicare.
- Nwallins 17y agoAs to libertarian complaints, really I am articulating the position of the fiscal right, i.e. fiscal conservatives. We are discussing the federal budget, after all. Whether old people and the AARP embrace Medicare in a selfish stab at the identity-politics cookie jar does not affect the classical republican (and indeed, liberal) platform. Note that I am not referring to and am in fact counter-indicating the GOP. The are plenty of old democrats, too.