JOHN STOSSEL

“But people will die!”

That’s what some shout whenever anyone proposes cutting government spending.

An audience member at a town hall shouted it when Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst said Medicaid shouldn’t cover illegal immigrants.

Ernst responded with an obvious truth: “We all are going to die.”

The audience groaned and booed. The Nation magazine said her “cruelty and sarcasm might cost her her job.”

Why? Ernst was right.

Politicians, spending other people’s money, ought to put limits on how much tax money to spend on medical care.

But they don’t want to.

“If there’s even one life that can be saved, we’ve got an obligation to try,” said Barack Obama, pushing gun control.

“You can’t put a price on human life,” said Sen. Cory Booker.

But in the real world, we put a price on lif

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