Whose Life is it Anyway? Politicians Should Stop Claiming Our Futures as Their Own by Doug Bandow for American Institute for Economic Research
Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) is looking after Americans. She recently insisted that she was “not going to let one or two men tell millions of people in this country that they can’t have paid leave.” The outrage. Imagine, a couple of guys are going around the country preventing companies from offering paid leave for new parents.
Oops, that isn’t what she meant. She was angry that West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin, though a fellow Democrat, refused to back the party’s $3.5 trillion Christmas tree budget bill. He said the party would have to drop its plan to confiscate even more earnings of Americans around the country to hand off to those favored by Murray. Far from being a brave stand against tyranny, her position was just another example of borrow and spend politics. She wanted to create yet another endless special interest social program. She was trashing the very person standing up for the underdog, the ever badgered, regulated, and robbed taxpayer.
Murray’s outburst offered a powerful reminder of H.L. Mencken’s warning that “Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.” In this case the good news is that the thieves had a falling out before they had distributed the loot. In fact, they hadn’t even collected it all yet.
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The gang leaders are not happy. Before jetting off to Europe President Joe Biden talked with the Democratic holdouts, most importantly Manchin and Arizona’s Kyrsten Sinema. Manchin also said no to Medicare and Medicaid expansion, de facto Medicare price controls on pharmaceuticals, and a billionaires’ tax. Sinema apparently opposed any tax hike.
The president appeared to remain civil. However, Bernie Sanders, the millionaire socialist with three homes—who once was an elector for the Socialist Workers Party and took his honeymoon in the Soviet Union—was less forgiving. He declared: “The problem is not with the president, the problem is with members here who, although they are very few in number … that think they have a right to determine what the rest of the Congress should be doing. And I strongly disagree.”
