Saturday, April 10, 2010
Jonah Goldberg on The Euro-izing Of America
Straight wisdom from the NR sage. I made a similar argument supporting our place (and Europe's "free riding") at Heritage.
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1 comment:
Excellent column and right on target. However, a big one he missed was drugs. Europe controls the costs and Americans pay retail so Europeans can have their Viagra and Paxil wholesale.
That always been a goal of mine, to subsidize some fat, sausage chewing Kraut's Lipitor.
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