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MS: Well, I think in naked political terms, I said this a few weeks ago, Hugh, that I think this, if you\u2019re on the political left, this is the fastest way to a permanent left of center political culture<\/a>. You so profoundly shift the balance of power between the citizen and the state, that you make it impossible to have genuinely small government, and a genuine conservative government ever again. And I think that is the advantage to it. And that advantage trumps all the problems. And they know that once they ram it through, it will prove so difficult to unstitch, that no Republican, any Republican who wants to run on undoing this whole thing, will be told oh, no, you can\u2019t do it. It\u2019ll become one of those things you can never do, like immigration. The Southern Border, everyone knows, you know, everyone says oh, the Southern Border is unenforceable. Who decided that? Nobody decided that. It just somehow, a consensus emerged that it\u2019s unrealistic to try to enforce the Southern Border. Similarly, a consensus will emerge that it\u2019s simply implausible to try and roll back government health care.<\/p>\n

MS: Yes, that\u2019s right, and you know, the interesting thing right now, if you go into most stores, and you purchase an item, you purchase a candy bar, if you purchase a candy bar in New Hampshire, there\u2019s no sales tax on it. If you purchase a candy bar in California, there will be sales tax on it, but you\u2019ll discover that. You\u2019ll be told a candy bar is 75 cents or whatever, and you\u2019ll then have the tax added on top of it. If you have a nationwide VAT, a value added tax, that will be built into the price. It\u2019s an automatic kind of 10, 15, 18% price hike. And I think again, that is one thing that if the American people put up with that, then they are essentially deciding to go along with wholesale Europeanization.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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