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| Media Link - Washington Times | ||||
| Wednesday, 21 April 2004 00:00 | ||||
Sen. John Kerry's "misery index" refers to the skyrocketing cost of the following: health care, college tuition and gasoline. Health care is financed primarily by Medicare, a government program, and tax incentives encouraging employers to pay the bulk of health care insurance premiums on behalf of patients. College tuition is in many ways supported by government grants and loans. The more government pays for tuition, treating it as an entitlement, the more colleges will charge for tuition. Gasoline prices are subject primarily to the whims of Arab dictators who preside not over free-market economies, but fascist or totalitarian regimes. This includes, most particularly, Saudi Arabia, the nation that gave us Osama bin Laden and that drives up oil prices by artificially restricting supply at times of peak demand. All of these facts would suggest a need for less government involvement in health care and education, yet Mr. Kerry proposes still more government subsidizing of these enterprises, on top of the billions already spent by President Bush. Exactly how will more of the same relieve our misery?
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