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 Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2007 2:00 am Post subject: Pandering To Self Pity |
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 Pandering To Self Pity
By George F. WillExplaining a simple pro posal to help people squirrel away gold for their golden years, Hillary Clinton said that a person "should not require a Ph.D. to save for retirement." But can even Ph.D.s understand liberalism's arithmetic and logic?
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By George F. WillExplaining a simple pro posal to help people squirrel away gold for their golden years, Hillary Clinton said that a person "should not require a Ph.D. to save for retirement." But can even Ph.D.s understand liberalism's arithmetic and logic?Consider the controversy over the State Children's Health Insurance Program. Most Republicans favor extending it. Almost all Democrats, and some Republicans, favor expanding it in a way that transforms it.SCHIP is described as serving "poor children" or children of "the working poor." Everyone agrees that it is for "low-income" people. Under the bill that Democrats hope to pass over the president's veto on Thursday, states could extend eligibility to households earning $61,950. But median U.S. household income is $48,201. How can people above the median income be eligible for a program serving lower-income people?Politics often operates on the Humpty Dumpty Rule ( "When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less"). But the people now preening about their compassion should have some for the English language.Clinton's idea for helping Americans save for retirement is this: Any family that earns less than $60,000 and that puts $1,000 into a new 401(k)-type plan would get a matching $1,000 tax cut. For those earning $60,000 to $100,000 the government would match half of the first $1,000. To pay for this, she proposes taxing people who'll be stoical about it - dead people - by freezing the estate-tax exemption at its 2009 level.A conservative case can be made for something like this. It's a case for reducing the supply of government by reducing demand for it, and doing so by giving people ownership of enlarged private assets as a basis for their security. It's a case for raising the nation's deplorable saving rate and simultaneously encouraging economic literacy and temperance by giving more people a stake in equities.
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