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Home >  Short Publications >  The Payer Makes the Rules
The Payer Makes the Rules
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Letter to the Editor
By Alex J. Pollock
Posted: Monday, December 31, 2007
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Wall Street Journal  
Publication Date: December 29, 2007

A vote of thanks to Thomas Letchfield, whose Dec. 5 letter so lucidly explains why the road to socialism is indeed the road to serfdom. His terse and forceful argument: If the government pays for you, then the government tells you what to do. So basic and so true, in insurance, medicine, retirement, schools or anything else.

Alex J. Pollock is a resident fellow at AEI.

AEI Print Index No. 22593


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