The Mitch McConnell Sinkhole
by Thomas B. Edsall at the NY Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/29/opinion/mitch-mcconnell-health-care-medicaid.html?ribbon-ad-idx=20&rref=opinion&module=Ribbon&version=context®ion=Header&action=click&contentCollection=Opinion&pgtype=article
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Many more Medicaid recipients are white than black or Hispanic.
Mick Mulvaney, a former congressman from South Carolina who is now the director of the Office of Management and Budget, promulgates the conservative view.
Writing on May 22 for his home state paper, the Charleston Post and Courier, in an opinion piece that fiercely defended the Trump administration’s proposed budget for fiscal year 2018, Mulvaney argued:
For years, we’ve focused on how we can help Americans receive taxpayer-funded assistance. Under President Trump’s leadership, we’re now looking at how we can respect both those who require assistance and the taxpayers who fund that support. For the first time in a long time, we’re putting taxpayers first.
After laying down this classic Republican framework, Mulvaney puts his own spin on it:
Taking money from someone without an intention to pay it back is not debt. It is theft.
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