Wednesday, July 04, 2012

The Cost of Obamacare will not be purely financial...

...but psychological as well. It "infantilizes" us. Dr. Keith Ablow explains why here. During a TV interview, he wondered what's to keep the government from mandating a few years hence that all citizens who drive purchase a hybrid car, if doing so fell under that government's understanding of fairness and the greater good. I'm having trouble imagining what in the universe of human activity can now be secure against a taxing power whose oxymoronic limit appears to be infinite.

2 comments:

Bill White said...

Your last sentence made me think it might be worthwhile to put some organized Catholic thought into ways to shore up what's left of the constitution in order to slow the government's descent into wherever it's heading (perhaps fascism without its ideological patriotism?).

William Luse said...

As long as you're the dictator, Bill, I could probably live with it. Securing a just successor will always be a problem, though.