"It's a near-crisis situation that experts say reveals a breakdown of the compact between Britons and their revered National Health Service," the Times reported, "That the government will provide responsible, efficient health care services, mostly free, across all income levels." There can be only one excuse for such signal failure to serve the prosperity of your citizenry: the chimera of equality.
At least we will have achieved Bouie's goal: equality! Indeed, members of the political Left are constantly asking citizens to simply reframe their perspectives on prosperity entirely.
Jerusalem Demsas, writing in The Atlantic, calls on Americans to rethink whether homeownership is worth pursuing, explaining, "Pushing more and more people into homeownership actually undermines our ability to improve housing outcomes for all." Indeed, rather than all aspiring to buy houses and some succeeding, Demsas calls for "Public investment in rental-housing quality" as well as government "Rent-stabilization policies." None of this will make it easier for anyone to own a home, but it will make everyone more equal in their government-sponsored tenancy.
President Joe Biden's entire economic agenda is built around the notion of economic mediocrity rooted in a self-proclaimed higher justice.
Paul Waldman of The Washington Post posited this week that Biden had launched an "Economic policy revolution" rooted in fighting "Inequality." This would require "More active government intervention in the economy." And we will all learn to love such intervention, because it will be done in the name of a higher value: equality.
Not equality of rights, but equality of outcome; not equality of value, but equality of resources.
Removing that incentive means more misery for everyone.
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