“We’re going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.”  So said Hillary Clinton at a fundraiser back in 2004.  Conservatives, in a rush to tag Clinton as a Marxist, sometimes strip out the context, she was talking about repealing President Bush’s tax cuts.  But her remark is a nice  motto for modern progressivism, which constantly demands that the rich finance a bulging public sector that acts for the common good.

This has been the theoretical foundation of the Obama presidency.  The stimulus would borrow from a wealthier future generation to energize the economy.  Obamacare would take resources from the health insurance companies and give them to the  uninsured. Repealing part of the Bush tax cuts would force the rich to “pay their fair share” for programs to help the poor.   The government, having defined the common good, then gets to enforce it on its own terms.  It’s nice gig, if you can get it.

When they remove my joke it says:

The first fella says, “THERE’S A SUPER PAC  CALLED ‘READY FOR HILLARY.'” And he continues, “WHAT EXACTLY DOES IT MEAN TO BE READY FOR HILLARY?”  And the second fella says, “IT’S LIKE BEING READY FOR A PROSTATE EXAM…THAT WILL LAST FOR 8 YEARS.”   And the first fella replies, ‘OUCH!'”

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