We do not have universal health care. We have a law that bullies you into purchasing it by taking away your tax credit, forcing you to make the financial decision of whether you want to pay for health care or give up that tax benefit. Either way it costs a lot of money and strikes hardest at precisely those it was meant to help (those in the lowest income bracket), and doesn't actually help anyone but allows us to have something that we can point to and boast about how progressive we are.
Now that I have the off-topic stuff out of my system...
Wouldn't it make more sense, from an achieving-ends standpoint, for the gay-marriage lobby to argue for the abolishment of heterosexual marriage in the eyes of the law and give everyone civil unions?
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Date: 2008-05-16 08:48 pm (UTC)Now that I have the off-topic stuff out of my system...
Wouldn't it make more sense, from an achieving-ends standpoint, for the gay-marriage lobby to argue for the abolishment of heterosexual marriage in the eyes of the law and give everyone civil unions?