McArdle: The rich can’t fund everything

McArdle: The rich can’t fund everything

The American left has developed a welfare state fantasy.

Almost always, when I point out the difficulties of enacting some social program much desired by the left, I am met with some version of the following rejoinder:

“Other countries have managed to do this. We passed Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security and, most recently, Obamacare. It is obviously possible to do these sorts of things, even in America. The obstructionism of people like you is the only reason we can’t have nice things.”The obstruction of people like me is, obviously, one of the reasons that we can’t have “nice things.” (Though, just […]

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