CNN has published an op-ed by Michael Wolraich entitled “Republicans’ Medicare blunder.” Wolraich doesn’t really make any new points. It’s just another juvenile analysis of the political risks associated with reforming Medicare. I call it juvenile because I’m tired of hearing about tax breaks for the rich as if the problem would be solved by raising taxes. Only an uninformed moron would keep using that talking point, yet here is CNN giving an idiot a platform to spread ignorance.
But Medicare belongs to all Americans. Most of us who do not have it now are counting on its support in our old age. When Republicans proposed to cut Medicare while reducing taxes for the rich, they expressed intent to take something away from us and give it to the other guy. And so, the Republican budget proposal is already a dead plan walking.
I’m not counting on Medicare. It’s fiscally impossible for that program to exist when I’m 64. When will “progressives” realize that we can’t tax our way out of this? Half the nation doesn’t pay taxes already. No amount of tax increase on the rich is going to cover our entitlements.
The period of scoring political points is over. The real blunder is that people like Michael Wolraich are more concerned with saving the idea of Medicare than dealing with fiscal reality. The days of debating with deranged entitlement drones is over. Liberal Democrats simply don’t get it. Until they come up with a logical plan for reigning in these entitlements the American public should ignore them. If the press wasn’t full of Democrats they would challenge shallow people like Wolraich. Unfunded liabilities per American taxpayer is now over 1 million dollars. This is a real crisis and no one on the left seems to be taking it seriously.
