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Originally posted by bilmore
Only to someone who wanted it to be so.
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Cute, but wrong. The left's proposition that certain policy goals are more effectively obtained by government programs than incentivized private sectors does not constitute a wholesale adoption of communist philosophy, except on these boards (a.k.a. www.birchsociety.com/chat).
Perhaps your favorite response to "Let's create universal health coverage" will always be "While you're at it, why not just nationalize my entire paycheck?!?!?" but this is not a frightening prospect to those of us who live in the region voted Most Likely to Actually Adopt This Policy. Even in San Francisco, there is a limit to the political support you can get for outright wealth redistribution --- be not afraid, then, of what a Congress including, by definition, people from Missouri will do with universal healthcare as a precedent.
So yes, it is a non sequitur, except if we live in a world in which someone who says "Let's do X" is always forced to respond to whether they'd necessarily also like to do 2X, 10X, and X^20.* In other words, law school.
*When your kid asks for an eclair from the dessert tray, do you immediately say, "If you like eclairs so goddamn much, why don't you have them breakfast, lunch, and dinner, huh?
Then we'll see how much you like eclairs! Oh, you'll have eclairs until you're bleeding custard out your goddamn ears!" Just askin'.
