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4 - TUESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2019
GAINESVILLE DAILY REGISTER
Opinion
EDITORIAL BOARD: Lisa Chappell, publisher; Sarah Einselen, editor
TODAY'S EDITORIAL CARTOON
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Mercatus Center). She makes audacious
assumptions that would make
Republicans blush, if they still could.
For example, 11% of her plan’s cost
will be covered by cutting payments
to providers such as hospitals (35%
below current private insurance
rates) and physicians (25%). Does her
clairvoyance extend to how many of
the former will then close and how many of the latter
will retire? She assumes that states and cities, which
cannot be compelled to do so, will send to Washington
the $6.1 trillion they spend on health care. She assumes
that her administration can collect an additional $2.3
trillion by shrinking the “tax gap,” i.e., reducing tax
evasion, a decades-old aspiration in Washington that
would have been accomplished already if it were
possible. And so on, and on.
Warren cheerily says, “No one gets left behind.
... Some of the people currently working in health
insurance will work in other parts of insurance, in
life insurance, in auto insurance,” which supposedly
will suddenly need the 370,000 people who today work
in private health insurance. She sees society as a
Tinkertoy for clever people like her to disassemble and
reassemble, shuffling around hundreds of thousands of
people.
Never has there been such a brittle prospective
presidency. Warren is vain about the specificity of
her plans for expanding the federal government’s
scope far beyond what either the New Deal or Great
Society envisioned. Yet the entire edifice of her
“transformation” of society by government spending
and fiats rests upon the rickety assumption that her
proposed wealth tax is constitutional.
But because the Constitution forbids “direct” federal
taxes, the 16th Amendment was necessary to make the
income tax possible. Warren’s evident theory—that
the federal government can, without an amendment,
impose a general tax on accumulated wealth—implies
that the term “direct” effectively prohibits nothing, so
the 16th Amendment was unnecessary.
Were her wealth tax to survive judicial review, and
were it to have its intended effect of steadily shrinking
the supply of billionaires, who then would fund
progressivism’s agenda? The spending commitments
would remain in place, so where would government
then go for revenues? To where most of America’s
money is: the middle class.
Warren, whose profile in courage is to foment
hostility toward a small minority (“billionaires”), should
try an experiment—not at her rallies of the resentful,
but with an audience of representative Americans. Ask
how many in the audience own an Apple product? The
overwhelming majority will raise their hands. Then
ask: How many resent the fact that Steve Jobs, Apple’s
innovator, died a billionaire? Few hands will be raised.
Few Americans know, but most intuit, what
economist William D. Nordhaus, a Nobel laureate,
argues in a 2004 paper: Innovators capture only about
2.2% of the surplus from innovation. The surplus is,
basically, the innovation’s value to society, minus the
cost of producing it.
Warren’s dependence on a wealth tax announces
progressivism’s failure of nerve, its unwillingness to
require anyone other than a tiny crumb of society’s
upper crust to pay significantly for the cornucopia of
benefits that she clearly thinks everyone wants — but
only if someone else pays for them.
The way Warren has cooked the books regarding
her health care financing testifies to Donald Trump’s
success in normalizing preposterousness. Candidate
Trump breezily promised to erase the national debt
in eight years, which would have required retiring
$2.4 trillion a year, a sum equal to 55% of the fiscal 2019
budget. Warren’s politically, socially and economically
surreal bookkeeping is more egregious than his
because she is intelligent enough to know better, and
because she used ingenuity, which he does not possess,
to disguise her disingenuousness.
Her cachet has been intellectual gravitas, supposedly
demonstrated by blueprints for refurbishing
everything. Suddenly “the thinking person’s Bernie
Sanders” seems more like progressivism’s Trump,
exacerbating social hostilities and playing fast and loose
with facts. Markets, for which Warren has minimal
respect, are information-generating mechanisms, and
America’s political market is working. Her Medicare for
All plan provides indispensable information, not about
governance but about her.
Oh, my where does the time go? I can hardly
believe that the holidays are just around the
corner and that the students of North Texas will be
completing another semester of hard work. There
are so many reasons to be thankful for the faculty,
staff and students that we serve at NCTC. At North
Central Texas College, 16.5% of students identify as
first-generation college students, meaning
that neither of their parents attended
college at all. This semester, over 1,500
students across our six campuses are the
first in their families to attend college and
NCTC offers many resources to help these
students reach their educational goals.
Rochelle Gregory grew up on a small
farm in Dublin, Texas. Her mom was a
nurse and her dad was a disabled veteran
who dropped out of school when he was
15 years old. Her dreams far exceeded
the pasture outside her home, and with the help
of TRIO Upward Bound, she decided to enroll at
Tarleton State University where she received her
bachelor’s and master’s degrees in English. In
2009 she received her Ph.D. in rhetoric from Texas
Woman’s University. Because of the example she
set, her son graduated from NCTC this year and
is pursuing a degree in math. Gregory serves as
the division chair for English, speech and foreign
languages at NCTC.
Patricia Johnson, NCTC admissions technical
assistant, is a proud first-generation college
student and graduate of Decatur High School.
Although her mom quit school and got married at
a young age, she always wanted better for Johnson
and her siblings. Patricia is on track to graduate
with an Associate of Arts degree from NCTC in
spring 2020.
Raised in a family of eight, and with parents
with less than a middle-school education, college
was not a topic of conversation for Nancy Zamora’s
household. It was not until her first year of high
school, when Nancy was introduced to TRIO,
that the possibility of going to college started
becoming a reality. Despite having all odds against
her, with the help of the TRIO programs, Zamora
was able to graduate from high school and go on
to college. Nancy earned a Bachelor of Business
Administration in management from Texas State
University and later received her Master of
Science in higher education administration from
Texas A&M University-Commerce. She began her
career with TRIO in 2010. Today, Zamora serves
as director of the TRIO SSS program for the North
Central Texas College District, president of the
Texas TRIO Association and board member for
the Southwest Association of Student Assistance
Programs (SWASAP).
Mary (Herring) Martinson is a first-
generation student and the youngest of
seven children. Her father was a welder
and a World War II veteran and her mother
passed away when she was just seven years
old. Neither parent graduated from high
school. Through a recommendation from
her high school, Martinson was chosen for
the JTPA (Job Training Partnership Act)
program at Vernon Regional Junior College
(VRJC), a summer youth program for
at-risk youth. Once she completed her basic
courses, Martinson transferred to Texas Tech
University. She received her bachelor’s degree in
1993 and earned her master’s from the University
of North Texas in 1996. Today, Martinson serves
as the dean of student success, mathematics and
kinesiology for NCTC.
Maricela Hernandez is a first-generation nursing
student and TRIO Student Support Services
participant at NCTC. Hernandez is a mother
of seven, and hopes to not only set an example
for her children, but for anyone who thinks it
is too late to follow their dreams and pursue an
education.
Growing up, Axel Leos’s parents always stressed
the importance of furthering his education. Their
sacrifices and support were ultimately what led
him to graduate with a Bachelor of Arts degree
in psychology from Texas Wesleyan University,
making him the first person in his family to
graduate with a college degree. Today, Leos serves
as a success coach within the Completion Center
at North Central Texas College. He uses his story
to help other first-time, first-generation students
reach educational success.
These are just a few of the hundreds of examples
of how NCTC is changing the future for first-
generation students. Join me in celebrating their
accomplishments.
Brent Wallace joined North Central Texas College in fall 2011 as the vice
president of instruction/chief academic officer. He has served as chancellor
and chief executive officer since 2014.
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Warren is Trump
for progressivism
WASHINGTON—Elizabeth Warren was supposed
to be the thinking person’s Bernie Sanders, impeccably
progressive but with realistic arithmetic connecting
aspirations to resources. Then came her explanation of
how she would finance “Medicare for All.”
Before Republicans wearied of pretending to care
about fiscal rectitude, they pretended that they could
eliminate budget deficits by eliminating “waste, fraud
and abuse,” a pledge that demonstrated their familiarity
with fraud. Warren prices her Medicare for All at $20.5
trillion in a decade, which is $10 trillion to $14 trillion
less than estimates from serious sources (the
Rand Corp., the Urban Institute, the
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