Leftists never fail to try defending the indefensible. The latest example is a seemingly reputable entity talking about how a program plagued with fraud complaints cannot expire as scheduled — because otherwise the economy will suffer. Talk about taking Keynesianism well past its logical limits: After all, those fraudsters buy things with the money they’ve stolen. Just think of the multiplier effects!
That’s the unspoken subtext of a recently published Commonwealth Fund report talking about how allowing enhanced Obamacare subsidies to lapse when they expire at year end would “lead … to coverage losses, job cuts, and billions in lost state and local revenue.” That position not only contradicts Commonwealth’s positions from not too many years ago, but it also attempts to justify waste
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