LIberals keep saying that insurance companies need competition. 3% profit margins — and yes, that is the profit margin for health insurance companies in America — are too much for the left.

Competition, we all agree, will reduce prices, improve innovation, and give people more flexibility and choices.

So what do liberals want to do to foster competition? A “public option.”

A public option would be a government run healthcare plan.

Here is what liberals willfully ignore in their sales pitch and what we must point out over and over and over — there is no competition when the government is involved. Why? Because of two reasons:

1. The government operates on tax dollars.
2. The government writes the rules.

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One of the great mysteries of contemporary society is how so many people have been able to sail into middle-age (or even senior-status) without ever having had any contact or interaction with, well, basically realities of how the world works. Abstract dorm-room-bull-session debates among sophomore undergraduates are bad enough - but one would think that time and exposure to reality would impose a solid degree of sanity and pragmatism, along with an orientation to results.

But apparently it’s possible to avoid nearly all contact with reality for decades. And it also seems that one of those folks has managed to get himself elected President.

And now he’s launching a mindless jihad designed to make the American corporate tax system - a system that is already badly uncompetitive in the world - even more uncompetitive.

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