A central component to democratic socialism is giving you a lot of free stuff: education, healthcare, house, Internet, money, and so much more.
Oftentimes when a democratic socialist is asked how they will pay for it, they shrug.Who cares about price-tags when we are entitled to stuff!
Case in point, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez appeared on Pod Save America, and could not answer a simple question: “But how are you going to pay for it?”
Her answer? Empty platitudes, something that is typical on the left.
“I think it’s that same exact thing. It’s that we … they say, “How are you gonna pay for it?” as though they haven’t used these same ways to pay for unlimited wars, to pay for trillion-dollar tax cuts and tax cut extensions. They use these mechanisms to pay for these things all the time. They only want to know … it just seems like their pockets are only empty when we’re talking about education and investing in human capital in the United States: education, healthcare, housing, and investing in the middle class. All the sudden, there’s nothing left. All the sudden, the wealthiest nation in the world, we’re just totally scarce. We have complete scarcity when it comes to the things that are most important. And so for me, I think it belies a lack of moral priority and that’s unfortunate. I think that a lot of these folks, especially those perhaps on the Democratic side, they don’t even see it, you know?… I legitimately think that they start kind of buying into conservative talking points. They get dragged into their court all the time. And I think it is because there is this really myopic and also just misunderstanding of politics as this flat, two-dimensional left-right thing.”
Here is the clip:
“But how are you going to pay for it?”@Ocasio2018 responds: pic.twitter.com/tRvqkXYfIN
— Pod Save America (@PodSaveAmerica) August 7, 2018
One more thing: the government doesn’t pay for tax cuts because it isn’t the state’s money. It’s yours.
Kevin J Beck says
I heard that she also said something about the government having to pay for funerals for people who died because of lack of health care.
I don’t know if she has figured this out yet, but everybody dies someday; it’s as inevitable as a stupid socialist demanding more taxes from the people.
But what really surprised me is the irony of her not saying, “These people who are dying early are doing something good; they’re allowing the accumulation of their contributions to Social Security and Medicare to be used by others, instead of their own greedy selves.”