Look, I don’t believe in affordable college education, universal health care, universal retirement, affirmative action, legal abortion, prison reform, business regulation, housing the homeless, or feeding the poor because I’m some do-gooder liberal. I believe in them because the opposite costs us more. It’s that simple.

Any governmental policy that does not support the middle class, that does not try to increase the middle class, or does not try to move the poor into the middle class, will eventually end up costing us more than it’s worth.

It’s not a right or a left issue. It’s not a conservative or a liberal issue. It’s the simple fact that poor people cost us money, and middle class people give us money.

Edit: I posted this on facebook 6 years ago today. It is good enough that I thought it belonged here.