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Faux News tries to condemn Obama for shutdown

mercredi 9 octobre 2013 à 14:00

Faux News tries to condemn Obama for the shutdown while claiming we'd be better off with much less government.

I am not an anarchist, and it's not merely because I have a pro-state gland. It's because there are many important things we need governments to do. For instance, to provide food and shelter to the poor. To fund scientific research and tests of new drugs. To provide education and health care to all. To build roads and passenger trains. To take care of national parks. To inspect many sorts of businesses to make sure they don't injure their employees, their customers, or bystanders. To impose a decent minimum wage and help workers form unions.

Of course, the state needs to pay for this, and that requires taxing the rich, as we used to do.