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Ayn Rand was forced to pay for SS and Medicare (like the rest of us). Is it really anti-libertarian to take what you are forced to buy? They are subsidized, bu
by loumf 13y ago
Ayn Rand was forced to pay for SS and Medicare (like the rest of us). Is it really anti-libertarian to take what you are forced to buy?
They are subsidized, but I assume she was at the end of the income spectrum that is doing the subsidizing.
Not a Rand-lover or libertarian (in fact, quite the opposite) -- but this is how I always looked at it.
- Aloisius 13y agoActually Rand probably paid very little into Medicare which was started in 1965 when Rand was already 60 years old. She probably took out many, many times what little she put in.
- crusso 13y agoYeah, because all the taxes she paid during some of the highest progressive income tax levels in our history were completely separate from the "lock box" where they kept Medicare money.
- Aloisius 13y agoConsidering there was no lock box of money (we ran a deficit the vast majority of the time she was paying taxes - a world war and a depression will do that), yes... money she paid in income tax before medicare was completely separate from the money used to pay for medicare. She didn't buy her own insurance. She got sick and in order to avoid bankruptcy and continue living, she got on medicare just like all the "takers" she so famously railed against. She certainly didn't pay her fair share for the insurance. Heck we don't even know if she paid any taxes during that 5 year period which was after she stopped writing and Objectivism had ebbed quite a bit.