February 04, 2005

I WAS almost suckered in by this duplicitious WaPost lead paragraph on medical care reform:
The budget President Bush unveils next week will propose spending an extra $140 billion over 10 years to expand health coverage to millions more Americans
But on closer reading this is just another WaPost lie (the dishonest WaPost reporter here is Ceci Connolly). If you look later in the story, it turns out that what is involved here are tax cuts -- i.e. the government isn't spending more of our tax money, quite the contrary -- instead people are being allowed to keep and make use of their own money:
About half of the $140 billion appears to represent Bush's plan to provide refundable tax credits for the purchase of health insurance.
This is a classic MSM lie, right out of the Columbia School of Journalism paybook. The whole tone and content of the article is anti-Bush, anti-reform, anti-market. Just what we've come to expect from the big lefty newspapers. Posted by Greg Ransom