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The mindless canard stating as unexplained fact that it would be worse to expand the federal government by a third in order to accommodate single-payer healthcare insurance than it is to have private, for-profit health insurance companies playing this role instead

…estimate by The Wall Street Journal, Sanders’ spending plans would cost $18 trillion over 10 years, increasing the federal government’s size by roughly a third. He would create a single-payer…

SCOTT SUMNER II

…from 1850 to 1950 to that of the post WW II era. The biggest difference in the two eras was the size of the federal government. For the most part…

Blockading Oil

…Luther King Jr. famously said that the US government was “the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today.” In the ensuing years the US government has developed, at an accelerating rate,…