When I heard John Kerry speak yesterday, he praised Obama's health care plan for not being a big government project. I winced when he said it. Kerry is using and falling for a right wing talking point. We need to put a lot of nails in that idea's coffin. Government that protects the weakest members of society, that enables every citizen to have a shot at jobs and opportunity, that protects our shared commons and resources, our economy and safety-- that's good government and we have to pay for it. That's investment in America and opposing taxes that invest in America's safety and future-- that right wing idea is not exactly patriotic, wise or courageous. It's cheap, parasitic and a sellout to big, transnational corporations and the military industrial complex. We on the left have known it. Now, many who supported the right wing politicians have felt it. It's time to challenge them to look their embrace of less govt and taxes in the eye and see that it's a bad idea.
Good, responsible government is GOOD for America, good for our privacy, good for our privacy, good for our prosperity. We need to pay taxes to make it happen. When we do, we pay less in other ways. We earn more in other ways. The less taxes, less government mantra offers a devils bargain.
It's time for leading democrats to find the guts to embrace the democratic, progressive principles that support healthy government and fair taxes that hit the wealthy harder. I don't want to see leaders like Kerry bashing government projects, like universal single payer health care. I'd like to see candidates take on the right wing less tax and less government mantra head on, and that means embracing and being proud of the functions of government. It's time.
Good, responsible government is GOOD for America, good for our privacy, good for our privacy, good for our prosperity. We need to pay taxes to make it happen. When we do, we pay less in other ways. We earn more in other ways. The less taxes, less government mantra offers a devils bargain.
It's time for leading democrats to find the guts to embrace the democratic, progressive principles that support healthy government and fair taxes that hit the wealthy harder. I don't want to see leaders like Kerry bashing government projects, like universal single payer health care. I'd like to see candidates take on the right wing less tax and less government mantra head on, and that means embracing and being proud of the functions of government. It's time.
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