Re: Socialized Medicine: Communists love it!

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From: Robert Hamilton
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 00:00

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Clay Maugans <cbm0470@acs.tamu.edu> writes:

> Rick Ottolini wrote:
> 
> > In article <Forum.889670863.31481.matt@mattsbox.pumatech.com> 
> >mnichols@pumatech.snip.this.com writes:
> > As long as the government subsidizes health insurance, i.e. not taxing
> > it, you'll see certain kinds of socialized distortions.
> > But is this bad?  Government subsidy makes more health care more widely
> > available, but again at certain costs.
> >
> 
> I've never bought that argument.  Taxation is a penalty.  Non taxation
> is not a benefit or subsidy, it's
> a lack of a penalty,  Non-taxation on benefits is the government butting 
> the hell out of your private
> affairs.

I can't buy that argument either. "Tax subsidy" is an oxymoron, based
on the faulty premise that the government is entitled to *all* our 
money, and therefore anything it *doesn't* take is some kind of 
gift or entitlement.

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From: Robert Hamilton <hamil@phys.tamu.edu>
Subject: Re: Socialized Medicine: Communists love it!
Date: 1998/03/12
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