Not to mention equating liberal policy with communism. Just because a public service didn't exist before 1945 doesn't make it communism. By blind conservative logic public high schools, fire departments and garbage collectors are communist organizations. Public healthcare and free college education are no different. You can be conservative and agree education and medicine are just as essential as police or anything tax money pays for. People need to stop equating human rights with socialism.
Conservatives understand socialism and agree that there are socialist programs. We also think that government systems suck. Public education is in the trash, USPS is broke, there are incredibly numerous controversies with the police department, I could go on. We don’t think we should eliminate all governmentally run programs, we should just limit them and give more control to the state government.
Also, there is not enough money for government healthcare or college education. Two things we happen, our taxes will dramatically spike and the value of both will dramatically sink. Sander’s plan for healthcare alone is something like $35 trillion. He won’t raise the taxes if the rich (who are responsible for more taxes than any of us), nor will he be able to raise the taxes on the middle class (political suicide nor would it make up for the $35 trillion.
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u/DrumMajorThrawn Oct 26 '19
People need to stop conflating liberalism and socialism. It poisons our language. The opposite of liberalism is authoritarianism.