cato-at-liberty.org - 11/22/2008
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Blocking Obama’s Health Plan Is Key to the GOP’s Survival Posted by Michael F. Cannon Ditto Baucus’ health plan . And Kennedy’s. And Wyden’s . Why? Norman Markowitz, a contributing editor at PoliticalAffairs.net (motto: “Marxist Thought Online”), makes an interesting point about how making ...
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Healthcare Debate: So This is Why Conservatives Hate Social Security
EconoSpeak —
Michael Cannon of Cato comes out against Obama’s health care plan – no surprise there. James Pethokouskis makes it explicit as to Cannon’s real concern: Passage would be a political gamechanger. Recently, I stumbled across this analysis of how nationalized healthcare in Great Britain affected the political environment there. As Norman Markowitz in Political Affairs, a journal of "Marxist thought," puts it: "After the Labor Party established the National Health Service after World War II, supposedly conservative workers and low-income people under ...
Why Conservatives Hate Social Security
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... . Or rather he allows Conservatives in the person of Michael Cannon at Cato admit the fundamental truth: successful government social programs fatally undercut future political success for the Right. Cannon: Blocking Obama's Health Plan is Key to the GOP's Survival ...
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