tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post6938050824717335806..comments2024-02-13T02:39:22.756-05:00Comments on EconomicPolicyJournal.com: The Conservative Case for the Welfare State?Robert Wenzelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14296920597416905488noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-55693100468044956302015-06-12T10:28:36.392-04:002015-06-12T10:28:36.392-04:00Bartlett is issuing a warning to all of you greedy...Bartlett is issuing a warning to all of you greedy bastards out there...... he's telling you that our current economic model is unsustainable and you had better have your gates closed tightly. <br /><br />Yep, it's class warfare. <br />Finally being fought on two sides.joeyesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00175577351325680966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-21588679791442706412012-12-29T21:22:59.741-05:002012-12-29T21:22:59.741-05:00Not true at all. If the US were to end monopolist...Not true at all. If the US were to end monopolistic protections of medical and insurance providers, end bans on reimportations of drugs, and cease cost shifting via Medicare and Medicaid, prices would drop precipitously. <br /><br />It is rather unbelievable that your solution to the problem is to give more power to the ONE ENTITY that caused the problem. <br /><br />Europe leaches off of US Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-48019575045538278802012-12-26T23:24:20.135-05:002012-12-26T23:24:20.135-05:00Like most Statist/Progressives where you go off th...Like most Statist/Progressives where you go off the rails is your assumption that the corporatocracy wants anything the Libertarian community is offering. If they did we would've been there long ago. Do you really think they want a weak government that can't protect their interests all the way to going to war for them? The Progressive state is a powerful tool for them. Why on earth would Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-49307060307599823792012-12-26T12:42:35.734-05:002012-12-26T12:42:35.734-05:00The medical industrial complex charges twice as mu...The medical industrial complex charges twice as much for goods and services in the United States than anywhere else. For the most part, this is a result of government intervention on the supply side.<br /><br />The only practical way around this is for the US government to use its monopsony buying power to push down prices. <br /><br />Doctors and the medical industry make a ton of money -- push Nick Bradleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07772794102967712253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-36704096973053691632012-12-26T12:40:41.892-05:002012-12-26T12:40:41.892-05:00I'm not really sure what 'horrors' you...I'm not really sure what 'horrors' you're talking about. <br /><br />The American medical complex charges double for goods and services in comparison to other countries. The most plausible way to get around this is simply giving the US government buying power to push prices down -- every other country does this.<br /><br />Why do you want doctors to make twice as much? This is notNick Bradleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07772794102967712253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-45476492966801231782012-12-26T10:59:52.108-05:002012-12-26T10:59:52.108-05:00What a charade!
Bartlett cloaks unambiguous and e...What a charade!<br /><br />Bartlett cloaks unambiguous and easily understood falsehoods in 'economist-ese' while displaying his diploma in 'appeal-to-authority' fashion.<br /><br />Precisely what is Bartlett saying, here? He is saying that the institutionalized practice of expropriating the proceeds of productive work for the purpose of redistributing to the needy ipso-facto El Gordonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-29873855612921214202012-12-26T10:48:36.902-05:002012-12-26T10:48:36.902-05:00You folks are beautiful. Yeah, right, those libs/l...You folks are beautiful. Yeah, right, those libs/liberts are creating legions of taxed, outpriced, outsourced, starved poor, yessiree. They are just ruining the world economy by their enormous burden.lmao <br />They are clueless to whom they sign their allegiance. Certainly they cherry pick what Constitutional protections they wish engaged.<br />And from now on we officially will refer to the Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-92184143246999639832012-12-26T05:13:49.226-05:002012-12-26T05:13:49.226-05:00Next up - McArdle's libertarian case for the w...Next up - McArdle's libertarian case for the welfare state?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-22471339429421701612012-12-25T14:30:56.233-05:002012-12-25T14:30:56.233-05:00May as well just call this the socialist case for ...May as well just call this the socialist case for the welfare state.<br />What in god's name is conservative about anything Bartlett said?Tonynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-63387487768158689432012-12-25T13:28:20.600-05:002012-12-25T13:28:20.600-05:00Another "conservative" who wants to tell...Another "conservative" who wants to tell me how to spend my money.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-21345040366655215942012-12-25T13:27:36.679-05:002012-12-25T13:27:36.679-05:00Ask how much he recieved from Evelyn de Rothschild...Ask how much he recieved from Evelyn de Rothschild to drive the middle class into a welfare state. Then the upper middle class, on and on, up the ladder.<br />Misdirected anger is the footsoldier of despots.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-64804167236016895712012-12-25T13:23:20.211-05:002012-12-25T13:23:20.211-05:00Everything is bloated, since bought government cle...Everything is bloated, since bought government cleared streams, including trillions in citizen held deposits and counterfeited cash, to untaxed cpi inflators against lower revenues and wages. Tax breaks, deregulation, and Fed(citizen) generated flood, outpriced, outsourced, welfare recipients, draw on the high percentage, taxed middle and upper middle class's tax burden. That serves perfectlyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-59672604604339192692012-12-25T13:04:16.833-05:002012-12-25T13:04:16.833-05:00I wonder how much money he receievd from Soros to ...I wonder how much money he receievd from Soros to sell out?Knoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-50814780687145840612012-12-25T12:37:28.797-05:002012-12-25T12:37:28.797-05:00Another conservative statist in libertarian clothi...Another conservative statist in libertarian clothing? I want to be shocked but I'm not. Hell you find this stuff from conservatives in the "immigration" debate. They'll complain about non-state approved people taking from the welfare system but then if you inquiry about getting rid of the welfare system and all other entitlements entirely they look at you like you just shot NY Cynichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05131625126863049626noreply@blogger.com