On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Carrol Cox <[email protected]> wrote: > So you think payroll taxes are lacking in substance! That insurance myth > takes one hell of a whack at the paycheck of millions of people. I want > the SS tax and medicare payments reduced to zero. >
That's why I said the distinction is important for rhetorical purposes. But what is wrong in thinking about welfare as a form of social insurance? It is, after all, a safety net. No one *wants* to depend on the government for survival, but it is nice to know that in the case of a disaster there is some help. Isn't that the very definition of insurance? -raghu. -- "My fallacies are more logical than your fallacies." _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
