{"id":3078,"date":"2013-08-30T13:15:56","date_gmt":"2013-08-30T20:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=3078"},"modified":"2013-08-30T13:15:56","modified_gmt":"2013-08-30T20:15:56","slug":"they-would-rather-the-poor-be-poorer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2013\/08\/30\/they-would-rather-the-poor-be-poorer\/","title":{"rendered":"They Would Rather the Poor be Poorer"},"content":{"rendered":"

     Alabama is having a new scholarship tax credit program<\/a> challenged<\/a> by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) because it doesn’t help every single child.\u00a0 It would provide $3500 per student in a failing public school.\u00a0 Not every child will benefit by this, but many will.\u00a0 That that is the very reason why Progressive organizations such as the SPLC oppose it: If you can’t help all<\/em> kids, then you shouldn’t be able to help any<\/em> kids.\u00a0 It strikes at the root of what the Progressive left considers \u201cjustice<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

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     Justice, to the Progressives, is forced egalitarianism in order to artificially create a society where there is an equality of outcome.\u00a0 If everyone is in the same boat economically, then no one can impose injustice on anyone else.\u00a0 This ignores the fact that someone<\/em> will have the power to over people to make that happen.\u00a0 Progressives are monomanically driven towards “equality,” that they would, in the words of Margaret Thatcher, “rather the poor were poorer, provided the rich were less rich.”<\/p>\n