Sowell: FAIL

Martin McPhillips cites Thomas Sowell:

"Here, the advocates of government-run medical care say that we all end up paying, one way or another, for the free medical care that hospitals are forced by law to provide in their emergency rooms. But unless you think that any situation you don’t like is a reason to give politicians a blank check for 'change,' the relevant question becomes whether the alternative is either less expensive or of better quality. Nothing is cheaper just because part of the price is paid in higher taxes."

My god -- is there anyone on the scene who can think in principles?

"The relevant question", ladies and gentlemen, is: how on earth can a so-called "free" society tolerate the government forcing (there it is in Sowell's own words, and he somehow glides past this) people to supply this economic good?

I cannot understand how anyone can simply take this state of affairs for granted and then start an analysis from that point. What in the world has happened to the mentality of a person who attempts to think like this?

These utilitarian analyses are worse than useless. They positively and actively stipulate to the statist fait accompli, which must be attacked at its roots. This is not an economic dispute, kids. This is a political fight for life itself. Questions of "quality" are impertinent except as natural consequences of socialism over which there is no rational argument. One might as well argue over the implications of throwing living people into bonfires, but every sane person knows that the very first question is whether it is civilized in the least degree to do something like that.

No, Mr. Sowell. You're dismissed until you can comprehend this entire matter.