Three Cheers for Gridlock

The ballots from last week’s midterms haven’t even all been counted and congressional Democrats are already all over your money like Jensen Huang on a sexy Chinese spy.

Senator Bernie Sanders wasted no time in renewing his call for Congress to pass Medicare for All, citing various polls showing that the public favors socialized health care dressed up as a modest Medicare expansion. According to a recent White House Council of Economic Advisers estimate, Sanders’s plan would increase federal spending by $32 trillion over the next decade.