Tuesday
Jan102012
US Elections Opinion: Taking Apart Rick Santorum and "Compassionate Conservatism"
Whether Rick Santorum and his supporters acknowledge it or not, their ideology is authoritarian, just not as dictatorial as the Hobbesian model. A child tax credit is a perfectly defensible proposition --- and Santorum would triple it --- but at heart it is the taking of property from some people to give to other people in the name of morality and the common good.