George Rebane
The recent national debate on socialized healthcare (aka Obamacare) has illuminated the way progressives, and presumably all collectivists, organize their thinking on how the government can determine the allocation of your funds and assets. The main enlightenment here is that they see no difference in a government's taxing a citizen to obtain revenues that it putatively then spends for the public good (like building roads and buying stealth fighters), and applying its power of the bayonet to also mandate that a citizen uses the monies left him to purchase a government prescribed good or service.
To a progressive the extension of traditional taxing to include spending prescriptions are birds of a feather. He sees no distinction between the two methods of mandating the disposition of your funds, and no procession from a creep to a gallop toward a comprehensive determination of how our earnings and assets should be disposed. For detailed examples and expressions of this belief tenet, please see the comment thread to ‘Healthcare on a Leftwing and a Prayer' in these pages.
Since a progressive cannot conceive of any limits to taxation, there are also no limits to what the government can and should determine on how we pass cash through our hands, whether it is buying light bulbs, or healthcare insurance, or ultimately the styles of shoes we should wear. It is all part and parcel of the plan to first nudge and then herd us all into a co-operative, complacent, and compliant society long envisaged by their social engineers and philosophers.
Being aware of this mindset removes another puzzlement when attempting to understand their weltanschauung or comprehensive view of the world and human life.
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