It's Monday and Robert Samuelson is Beating Up on Seniors, Again

It's great that the Washington Post lets Robert Samuelson run the same columns again and again. Otherwise he might have to work for his paycheck.

Today's column is a rerun of the senior bashing piece. The premise is that we can never raise taxes and that we are too stupid and/or corrupt to get our health care costs in line with the rest of the world. And, if these two claims prove to be true, then voila, spending on seniors will crowd out other spending in the budget. 

It's not clear wh...