Redistribute To The Little Guy But Not The Tiny One
What’s been happening regarding Obamacare is simple to understand. The Democrats got confused by the fact that Joe Sixpack voted for them and that Joe Sixpack was obviously opposed to Wall Street fat cat types.
To Joe, rich people are OK if they benefit him as well. But the minute that is not clear he is fine with the idea of penalizing them, especially if he thinks he may gain from those penalties. Conservatives try to explain to him that such penalties will hurt him as well in the long run but he is not convinced. So he votes Democratic.
But he didn’t do it for idealogic reasons. He did it for self interest reasons. Thus if you try to extrapolate the ideology to penalizing, if only slightly, the middle class who have no prexisting conditions, in order to help the poor or those with such conditions, Joe won’t go along.
Essentially those poor people are in the same category, to him, as the fat cats. People he doesn’t know personally who may be costing him money.
The above idea may have escaped the Obamaites but its actually simple once you accept a fact of life. Almost everyone is just out for themselves.