Bill Maher and S.E. Cupp debate the merits of disincentives to work as highlighted by the recent CBO report on Obamacare.
The message never stops morphing. First, Obamacare was going to CREATE jobs. Then, it wasn’t going to KILL jobs. And now? Look, it’s not about jobs. It’s about people not working because they don’t have to. Of course, as typical liberals Maher and Co. fail to ask who has to pick up the slack. Healthcare doesn’t magically become free. Someone has to pay.
MAHER: Yeah disincentives to work are not always a bad thing. Americans work too much. Americans are over-worked, overstressed. They take less vacation time. They don’t retire when they want to. Not everything is GDP.
S.E. CUPP: No. Um, no. Disincentivizing work, up until two days, was agreed by Democrats and Republicans to be not a great thing. The project of economics on the left and the right has always been to come up with welfare programs that disincentivize work the least. Why? Work is dignity. Work is social and economic empowerment. Work is women’s lib. Work is opportunity. So this false argument that somehow disincentivizing 2 million people to work and leave the economy is now a good thing is bull. It’s absolute spin.
(transcript via RealClearPolitics)