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Trump's Budget Is Pure Cruel Conservatism (Rolling Stone)
The last Republican president, George W. Bush, branded himself a compassionate conservative. In many ways Bush certainly did not live up to that principle, but he at least knew to pay lip service to the notion that conservatives should care for the needy while also tending to the free market and national defense.
Now, even that pretense of compassion has gone out the window. Based on his actions so far, and in particular his budget released this week, President Trump seems to be practicing a different ideology: unabashedly cruel conservatism.
There's no other way to describe Trump's domestic policies. Monday gave us the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office estimate on the effect of Trump's signature policy proposal to repeal and replace Obamacare. The report stated that 14 million more people would be uninsured in 2018, compared to the current plan, and 24 million more by 2026. (And that's actually lower than the White House's own estimate.) To put that in perspective, that's roughly equivalent to pulling insurance from as many people as live in the entire states of Florida and Colorado, combined, over the coming decade.
This is a perfect example of Trump and his political party knowingly pushing cruelty, and not even trying to hide it. Tens of millions of people will face the reality of knowing they're one sickness or injury away from economic devastation, or of deciding they'll live with being sick or injured because they can't afford health care.
More: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/trumps-budget-is-pure-cruel-conservatism-w472641
Now, even that pretense of compassion has gone out the window. Based on his actions so far, and in particular his budget released this week, President Trump seems to be practicing a different ideology: unabashedly cruel conservatism.
There's no other way to describe Trump's domestic policies. Monday gave us the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office estimate on the effect of Trump's signature policy proposal to repeal and replace Obamacare. The report stated that 14 million more people would be uninsured in 2018, compared to the current plan, and 24 million more by 2026. (And that's actually lower than the White House's own estimate.) To put that in perspective, that's roughly equivalent to pulling insurance from as many people as live in the entire states of Florida and Colorado, combined, over the coming decade.
This is a perfect example of Trump and his political party knowingly pushing cruelty, and not even trying to hide it. Tens of millions of people will face the reality of knowing they're one sickness or injury away from economic devastation, or of deciding they'll live with being sick or injured because they can't afford health care.
More: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/trumps-budget-is-pure-cruel-conservatism-w472641