So says Edwin Leap. Just please don’t tell me that health care will be free:

Even health-care in the purest idealized socialist system, in the most European, Marxist based, Castro-modeled, academic leftist dream-scape, won’t be free. Get this: health care can’t be free.

It can be free to the people who receive it, provided they are low enough on the economic scale. But to anyone with money, health care will cost something. It will feel good to have those surgeries and prescriptions handed out without a bill. No question. But it will come at the cost of very high taxes. The money will come from the government, but governments don’t produce”¦they consume. And what they consume is productivity in the form of taxes.

If care in the US is socialized, look for very high income taxes, in the 50% range for most everyone with a decent income.