Re: Richard Rorty and social security

[Joel Blau]

Louis:

But it is not anti-entitlement rhetoric. It is rhetoric against a particular
threshold for mandating taxes against the more affluent elderly, which, as Max
said, in the context of a screed against growing income inequality, is an entirely
different matter. To pursue the logic of your position, one would have to say that
someone could receive an unlimited amount of income without any taxes on social
security. Social security or no social security, no taxes on the wealthy does not
sound like a militant socialist politics.

Joel Blau

"It is not sufficient to oppose the legislation using the worst kind of
anti-entitlement rhetoric that he employs."