April Fools

The huge federal tax increase on tobacco that takes effect April 1st is our first indication that toggling between Democrats and Republicans is a false pluralism. The first act of a so-called "new" congress and administration--a huge regressive tax increase triumphantly passing congress and signed by the president--appropriately takes effect on April Fool's Day.

The best way to ensure children get the healthcare they need is to control the cost and increase the income to pay for it. SCHIP does neither!

When the government tries to control rising prices the new pool of money the new tax provides, the medical profession will simply reluct the service to be rendered in a free market fashion. Without meeting the price, and increasing the need to tax, the newly insured will be faced with a shortage. Everybody loses to the non-market, cost-push distortion of the regressive, tax-funded insurance program. The free market mechanism, instead of an equitable efficiency, is then rendered to increase the income of the healthcare sector and reduce the income of the consumer--a deflationary whipsaw effect (a continued consolidation of wealth), just exactly what we do not need!

A progressive tax will be required to correct for the distorted distribution of income, rendering the distribution more equitable so that the free market mechanism will work to everyone's benefit and not just a few market tyrants armed with an elitist, self-satisfied sense of superiority, the will to power, and a tax authority.

Instead of controlling the cost and increasing the ability to pay for it, all healthcare consumers will be whipsawed; and the race is on to see how quick an economic sector can get rich at the public trough...not exactly the legitimate model of a free-market mechanics.
Rather than freedom, the entire scheme, from the regressive, inferior-lifestyle-targeted tax burden to the distribution of the economic benefit, induces the model of tyranny being the preferred model of a two-party, duopolistic system, and a false pluralism. It is a tyranny of false choices that raises its ugly head to gain a legitimacy of power characterized by a superiority of lifestyle that especially opportunes in a time of crisis, like The Great Depression. It is a tyranny that we have learned at great cost burgeons a philosophy of intolerance that will destroy freedom in order to save it only for a few that have the will to claim righteousness and the virtue of choice for themselves.

State capitalism is not socialism. Nor is it a free-market economy.

The hope of ensuring a more free-market mechanism to control costs and increase incomes--the sure cure for deflation--by toggle-switching to the Democratic Party...April Fool!