how we could win [was Re: [lbo-talk] how Hillary could win]

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Jul 19 11:43:28 PDT 2006


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



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