I believe that what Krugman says is at the heart of the health care debate. An excerpt from his column:
What are the differences?
"One side of American politics considers the modern welfare state -- a private-enterprise economy, but one in which society's winners are taxed to pay for a social safety net -- morally superior to the capitalism red in tooth and claw we had before the New Deal.
It's only right, this side believes, for the affluent to help the less fortunate.
The other side believes that people have a right to keep what they earn, and that taxing them to support others, no matter how needy, amounts to theft.
That's what lies behind the modern right's fondness for violent rhetoric: Many activists on the right really do see taxes and regulation as tyrannical impositions on their liberty.
There's no middle ground between these views. This deep divide in American political morality -- for that's what it amounts to -- is a relatively recent development."
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