Supreme Court has turned the 2012 election into a conflict of visions

[Valin]

American Enterprise Institute:

James Pethokoukis

June 28, 2012

 

So, as it turns out, the 2012 presidential election won’t really be about same-sex marriage. Or deportations. Or Bain Capital. (Well, mostly not about that stuff.)

 

Thanks to the U.S. Supreme Court decision upholding President Barack Obama’s health-care reform law, the election will–at its core–be squarely about Obamanomics, and whether American voters are happy enough with the results of four years of radical economic experimentation to give the go ahead for four more of the same.

 

That’s what Obamanomics is, of course. A grand, immensely expensive experiment to see if Obama’s central planners are any better at their jobs than their European counterparts;

 

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State capitalism and top-down planning or market capitalism and bottom-up innovation. The Supreme Court has defined the choice.