Reply #68: I think you're misguided

[sandnsea]

that's what I think. And I think you're touting Republican economic philosophy whether you recognize it as such or not.

Starting at the end, yes, we have allowed ownership of portions of this earth. BTW, many medicines come from that very earth. In any event, ownership in order to retain and control the fruits of ones labor has been deemed a good thing. For whites anyway as we have systematically denied that to other ethnic groups. We have moved far, far away from that simplistic economy however, there really isn't much in that philosophy that applies to the complicated entanglements of corporations and global economies and resources we have today. At some point in the last 20-30 years, we have moved far away from a purely product (fruits) oriented economy into an economy where money and corporations have value unto themselves and make up as much or more of the global wealth than the products traded.

The maintenance of that investor wealth, which is now critical to prevent global economic collapse, is also dependent on continuing downward pressure on corporate costs. Corporate costs being labor and benefits, among others. Therefore, no amount of reduction of taxes is going to improve the opportunity for labor to meet all its needs. Labor, (citizens, taxpayers, the voting public), will either join together to insist its needs are met through a consensus of what is a public good, as a basic right for continuing to supply that labor; or we end up serfs.

That is what makes health care a right. It is a public good, just like police, fire and education.