Universal Healthcare, Free education, Welfare, Public Housing... They hurt the poor?
Or I dunno, maybe we are liberals because we belivie in Social Justice, Equality and individual liberty.
Yes---they hurt the poor. Let's take them one at a time:
Let's start with the easiest one--free education. First of all--please learn something for once in your life--
NOTHING IS FREE. That basic flaw in your logic will continue to bring your to erroneous and uneducated decisions--which is why you are liberal to begin with--if you understood that basic concept you'd be a lot farther along.
Now by "free education" I assume you mean "public" education. Public education is NOT a liberal concept--its been around for centuries.
And if you think public education has helped the poor, then you obviously have not been to a public school in the inner cities. The poor are getting screwed by the Democrats because the government unions have them by the proverbials balls. When you poll the inner city black parents about school vouchers (i.e., give them money to send their kids to a private school) they OVERWHELMINGLY SUPPORT IT. Yet, we will NEVER have a voucher system because the government unions are too powerful and control the Democratic party. You liberals love to talk about big corporations controlling government---well get educated--
the top 9 of 10 donors to politicians are unions. The very people liberals swoon over (poor inner city blacks) are being screwed by those same liberals with a completely inadequate public education system. Oh--and don't say we need to spend more money because we arlready spend more money per student in the US than any other industrialized nation and we have the lowest scores--private schools can do the job much better and cheaper. It an easy solution to "help the poor" and the liberals will never allow it.
Universal Healthcare.
The poor ALREADY HAVE UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE--its callled Medicaid (or Medi-Cal in California. If you GIVE people healthcare, a significant share of them will over-utlize it like what happens in Canada meaning the poor will have to long waiting lists to see a doctor--the rich--they'll just pay to get it quicker. Oh--and the tax rates will go up significantly to to pay for it causing a loss of jobs--most of which will be low level paying jobs--again screwing the poor.
Public Housing--have you ever been to a public housing project? Seriously--have you--because you can go to any inner city in America and see them rotting and empty--eye sores--run down dilapidated places--they came to symbolize inner city ruin. I can't believe that you even brought that up--that's by far the biggest failure of the many stupid liberal policies over the decades.
Welfare--this one is fine on a short term basis. However, welfare ENSLAVES many more people than it helps. People are much happier and more fulfilled when they earn what they have.
Now let me tell you why you have the philosophy you have--it has far less to do with helping the poor and far more to do with "rich envy"--that is most liberals are angry that some people have so much rather than being concerned about those that have so little. You'd rather not see rich people because then you don't have to feel envy.
And finally--tell me in your infinite liberal wisdom--how in the world and who decides who is "entitled" to welfare or disability and how much do you pay them? Because as soon as you "give" people enough to be comfortable (as oppossed to barely scraping by) then guess what happens--a lot of people become "disabled" and unable to work. Who the hell is going to work when you can live comfortably on social benefits?
So that's why stupid liberal fiscal policies don't work.
I have no problem, btw, with social engineering, but it only works if you do it by tax incentives, not tax penalties. A good example of that is a tax policy that designates areas as "blighted" and gives significant tax incentives to business to both invest there and hire people who live in the area. But guess what--tax breaks for the rich is the same tired rhetoric you hear from liberals. Let's just build housing projects instead of giving tax incentives to re-juvenate the areas!
Taxing people more for making more is counter-productive. We should scrap the entire income tax system (which is the biggest stupid liberal fiscal policy of all) and replace it with a national sales tax--that alone would save hundreds of billions of dollars alone in what we save trying to enforce the income tax system. Its ridiculous to try and track income--tracking purchases is a helluva lot easier to do.
So liberals consider yourselves educated. I don't expect most of you to understand this--you're too blinded by liberal fiscal ignorance.
