Every “civilized” society socializes the risks and burdens of providing for the basic needs of its citizens. It shares the costs across the entire population. Some needs can only be provided for in this way — health care, the best example, is an unaffordable luxury for most citizens unless everyone equitably shares the cost of maintaining a widely accessible system.
You know everything you need to know about the top 0.1 percent of the US population (exemplified by the Kochs, Sacklers, Waltons and Adelsons) when you understand what they really want from the government they have co-opted or bought over the last 40 years: They want out of this bargain — in perpetuity, from generation to generation.
Having siphoned off half the nation’s wealth for themselves, they now want it established in law that the wealthiest are not responsible to the other 323 million of us. That if the rest of us want a broadly accessible health care system, we should build and pay for it ourselves. This is how they define “freedom.”
No class of people has enjoyed such privilege in any Western society since the French Revolution.
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