The Southern Avenger- Lindsey Graham's Crappy Republican Party

Another pretty good editorial by the Southern Avenger, however, I do have to disagree with him on the similarities between the state plan and the federal plan. Obviously, considering that I'm an avid reader of this blog, I think both plans are bad, but to equate the harm that a state plan could do to the harm that a federal plan could do is not really relevant here. It is infinitely preferable for liberals to toy around with this type of plan on the state level. Even if the idea caught on and all fifty states adopted a state run health system, at least the fifty different plans would be evaluated against each other and most likely the states would gravitate towards the plan that is least bad. Also, the analogy of the health care plan to taxes doesn't quite work either. A federal income tax is infinitely worse than a state income tax because 1) income taxes were originally unconstitutional, and 2) if there are only state income taxes, you could at least move to the state with the lowest taxes. In general, when governments run amok at the state level, they are limited by budget constraints and competition from other states. The federal government has neither of these constraints.

This is not a defense of Lindsay Graham. I agree with Jack that he and Romney likely would endorse a national plan of their own if they were in the oval office. Also, another danger of state run health care at the state level is that even if 50 states tried and failed, liberals would claim that the model failed in all cases because it wasn't instituted at the national (or worse, global) level. Of course, at least trying the state method first would still offer everyone a glimpse as to which socialist plan would be least bad, and it would also buy us more time to build that nationless, floating city in the sea that we'll likely need when the western economic system collapses.

Thanks for the link. Great job Jack

As usual, Jack is always right on!!

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