Equality is fine. Equity is the material version, in which the trees are all kept equal by hatchet, axe and saw. /old reference
Well, you don’t need to parse words to understand that, he is either a leftist, or that he will kowtow to the radical left. Or both. He has shown that time and time again. Furthermore, he tries to hide his true attitudes just like a good leftist does.
As Jordan Peterson has said — Equal Opportunity is a very good thing; any decent society offers equal opportunity (as ours does). But Equal Outcome can only be advanced by tyranny and even then it will not really be achieved. Equal Outcome is an evil goal.
The government must assure equality of rights and nature has the power to control abilities whether those abilities be physical or mental. Only dictators can enforce equality of outcomes when these rights and abilities are exercised.
Equity = Marxist “equality’
The most barbaric regimes on earth have had what they called “equality” (of course some are more equal than others). If you don’t conform to the equals that is set for you,you get disappeared.
I was expecting a different complaint from an economic publication. From an economics viewpoint I found the most alarming, and sophomoric, thing said was the nonsense of rebuilding thousands of homes in order to satisfy the environmentalists would produce “millions of jobs”. That is truly, truly stupid and totally leftist.
It assumes all of us are here just for the benefit of the whims of the those who run government.
Economics is about how a society allocates resources. Most of these resources are scarce or limited. When vast amounts of resources are allocated by the government by using tax monies or subsidies (our money), then that means there are fewer resources left for discretionary purposes.
Thus, when the government decides that vast sums are to be used for rebuilding perfectly good buildings, then there will be less resources for building new buildings or other things that could be done with those vast sums.
So when Joe says millions of jobs will be created, then that immediately says that there will be millions of people doing useless work when they could have been gainfully employed to provide things that you and I wanted to buy or services that you and I wanted and in many cases, needed.
BTW: This is NOT related to JFK’s observation that a rising tide lifts all ships. JFK was taking a swipe at the liberal notion that all wealth is fixed and anyone who acquires wealth has done so at the expense of someone else.
Socialism promises equality and eventually delivers it in the form of the equality of the grave.
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The most frightening thing about the debate is that Joe Biden, the puppet of a communist cabal planning a coup d’état in the USA, is under consideration!
Good point but it is obvious he has no idea what he is talking about
In “The Road to Serfdom” F.A. Hayek describes the dissimilar ways our founders and communists define “equality”.
founders: equality before the law
Commies: equality of servitude