Excellent demolition job, Jon!
Perhaps the most bothersome thing about it is Fitzsimons’ eagerness to launch an attack on what he presumes to be my motives. He doesn’t know me at all, but feels comfortable in asserting that I want to deny opportunity to poor people. That’s flat out false.
We see this kind of thing from the statists all the time. Whenever they confront a solid argument against their cherished notions about the benefits of an ever-expanding state, the first and often the only retort from them is to impugn the motives of those who think otherwise.
