Posted by
Compassionate Conservative on Wednesday, July 29, 2009 12:01:41 PM
Here's another letter to the editors of the Harrisburg Patriot-News that will never see the light of day outside this blog. When you show up one of their favorite liberal columnists, which Paul Krugman clearly is, you'll get no print. My brilliant piece skerwering Cynthia Tucker's for her fluff piece a couple of weeks ago was round-filed, and this will be, too.
"Your regular Wednesday contributor, fauxconomist Paul Krugman, is so far left that Democrats who are only moderately liberal look like right-wing fanatics and corporate tools to him. Blue Dog Democrats in Congress have asked legislators to look hard at the expenditures associated with the Obama administration's latest flirtation with socialized medicine to ensure that it neither breaks the bank for government or small business.
The fact is that refusing to tax the most productive segment of the population to pay the doctor bills for the least productive segment is fiscally responsible. It prevents the government from ruining the economy by using excess taxes to rob it of capital for economic growth. Furthermore, most small businesses are marginally profitable enterprises squeezed by their larger competitors; forcing them to buy health care insurance for their employees will be the last straw for many or even most of them, again with extremely negative consequences for the consumer.
It's not being a "corporate tool" to ensure that the most productive sectors of the economy remain strong, providing jobs for all of us and a strong tax base to support those projects that are the constitutional domain of the federal government. That is, of course, unless you're a left-wing extremist like Paul Krugman, for whom no amount of government interference with our economy is too much."