Oh, I understand very well Lief the Dem brief for handing out goodies to the rich. I put that brief in the shredder, and then incinerated the paper shavings, decades ago. It's unprincipled, and economically inefficient, and a dishonorable way to prop up of the popularity of entitlement programs one cannot afford in my opinion. Thank you.
Not sure I understood you. Do you disagree that what I posited will happen will actually happen if these programs are made means-tested? Or do you simply not care?
I prefer to fashion programs propping up the social safety net that are the most economically efficient in moving money to those who really need it with the least economic distortion, and the most meritorious on their merits, as opposed to worrying about posited middle class greed undermining their support. I think better of the voters than that. In short, I think the Dem "fear mongering" on this is more of a rhetorical tactic to keep in place their favored regime, than something that would actually happen.
Out of curiosity, why do you think the Democrats favor this regime, and what aspects of the Democratic platform do you think might suffer without it absent the middle-class resentment issue?
