If government makes you take money out of your paycheck and send it in, that is not a "contribution" on your part, it is a "tax," and if government tells you that you have to devote time to a government work project, you are not "volunteering", you are being "conscripted." In the name of George Orwell, Americans should get this straight.
The San Francisco Examiner seems to be the only media outlet to examine the actual bill. Where is the Republican leadership in the Senate on this bill? The cost--$5.7 billion--is preposterous, but the real problem is the language that would make voluntarism "mandatory", sliding us another distance down the slope to government control of everything.
My paper on this topic for The Brookings Institution a while back is here. In it, I point out--as I have been doing for literally forty years--that the agents of social engineering are never idle.
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