It's socialist. Socialism is sort of like communism and therefore it is bad.
In seriousness (ok, the above is actually serious for some people), some people do object to the idea of the government seizing more control over an aspect of their everyday lives and object to paying more taxes for bigger government and/or for a program that they themselves might not personally benefit from.
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Date: 2009-08-01 01:08 pm (UTC)In seriousness (ok, the above is actually serious for some people), some people do object to the idea of the government seizing more control over an aspect of their everyday lives and object to paying more taxes for bigger government and/or for a program that they themselves might not personally benefit from.