There shouldn't last whatsoever existent surprises well-nigh the Congressional Budget Office's estimates on the revised House Republican plan. Fundamentally, conservatism is a rejection of redistribution through the taxation system, together with hence the invention reduces the marking of redistribution past times cutting taxes together with reducing subsidies. That's... the betoken of the ideology. You don't become to a boxing tally together with wonder, "hey, what's amongst all the punching?"
From a world relations standpoint, a reduction inwards coverage of 23 1 thou one thousand doesn't expect good, but that isn't the betoken for a conservative because that isn't the
goal for a conservative. So, recollect to a greater extent than or less terminology that I maintain using. "Valence." Good ole' Donald Stokes drew a distinction betwixt "valence" issues together with "positional" issues dorsum inwards a 1963 article called "
Spatial Models of Party Competition." With a positional issue, nosotros disagree on what nosotros desire to achieve. Abortion. Should abortion last legal or not? That's positional. With a valence issue, nosotros grip on the goal, but disagree on how to larn there. Strong economy, national security, etc.
Should everyone convey healthcare?
Liberals think this is a valence trial because they don't empathise how
conservatives think. A headline intelligence storey well-nigh 23 1 thou one thousand people losing their wellness insurance sounds bad. Remember, though, that most people actually are neither liberal nor conservative. Those neither-liberal-nor-conservative-folk aren't probable to last happy amongst the GOP when they meet such stories, but those same people could convey unlike reactions to the center policy issues presented differently, e.g. a focus on premiums or which people larn which benefits. Remember that Obamacare was unpopular when it passed! Increasing the number of people amongst healthcare coverage is
not a valence issue. It is a positional issue. If you lot oppose redistribution, you lot don't assist well-nigh the reduction. Rather, that's the
goal.
The reduction inwards coverage is the
point of the bill. Republicans wouldn't last doing anything if it didn't cut back coverage. Their objection to Obamacare was that it was an expansion of the welfare state. The CBO numbers are a world relations occupation for the GOP, but every bit I convey been saying, together with volition operate on to write, their likelihood of successful repeal, partial or otherwise, is depression anyway. Understanding this, though, requires agreement that the CBO only pointed out the deviation betwixt a positional preference together with a valence preference. This is basic ideology.