Saturday, February 2, 2019

The Democrats Lose Their Minds

Schultz isn't one of those Blue Dog, Southern or Midwestern, conservative Democrats either.

According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, employer-provided health insurance covers "Approximately 152 million nonelderly people in total." A poll last year by America's Health Insurance Plan found that 71 percent of Americans were satisfied with their employer's plan.

Most Americans have health insurance, and most Americans are pretty happy with their insurance.

A wealth tax of the sort she has proposed-a government claw-back of property in order to make real a subjective standard of equality-would be unique in American history.

The brightest star in the Democratic Party is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, aka AOC. The other week, in conversation with Ta-Nehisi Coates, AOC said, "I do think that a system that allows billionaires to exist when there are parts of Alabama where people are still getting ringworm because they don't have access to public health is wrong." Don't worry, "It's not to say someone like Bill Gates or Warren Buffet are immoral people." AOC's complaint is with the "System" that "Allows" Gates and Buffet-and Schultz and Bezos and George Lucas and Mark Zuckerberg and the rest-"To exist." Presumably Gates and Buffet are safe, existentially speaking.

Well, plenty of people do tell them that-I seem to recall a lack of government experience being an issue in the most recent presidential election-but if anyone has "Worked his way up," from the poorhouse to being the first in his family to graduate from college to turning a coffee shop at the Pike Place market into the global behemoth that is Starbucks, it's Howard Schultz.

It's a position widely at variance with that of most Americans, who favor at least minimal restrictions on abortion.

https://freebeacon.com/columns/the-democrats-lose-their-minds/

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