Excellent point!

I recently made a similar observation WRT to leftist hand-wringing about the "cost" of Wal-Mart in terms of state medical subsidies received by many of its workers. Such "costs" are, first off, NOT incurred by Wal-Mart, but by the welfare state. Worse, that portion consumed by Wal-Mart employees is merely the tip of the iceberg of the cost of state subsidized medicine! And, to top it off, the state taxes everyone to pay for these subsidies whereas Wal-Mart would merely be able to make its customers pay higher prices if it chose to offer similar benefits to its employees.

It amazes me how many issues there are out there for which people take the welfare state for granted when thinking about them, with the end result being that many issues facing our country are made to seem more complicated than they actually are. In addition, the thinking about such issues is muddled from square one, as we see in discussions about Wal-Mart.

Gus

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Posted by Gus Van Horn to Thrutch at 8/15/2005 08:04:31 PM