Re: how we could win [was Re: how Hillary could win]
On Jul 19, 2006, at 2:13 PM, Jordan Hayes wrote:
Plus there’s the perceived ‘problem’ of giving a handout to those
who can already afford preschool. Is it really that hard to
administer a needs test for things like this?
It’s a law of politics that targeted, means-tested programs suck. The
only way to have good public programs with broad support is to have
them be universal. E.g., Social Security, or Scandinavian social
democracy.
Doug