“Soft despotism is a term coined by Alexis de Tocqueville describing the state into which a country overrun by "a network of small complicated rules" might degrade. Soft despotism is different from despotism (also called 'hard despotism') in the sense that it is not obvious to the people."
It is a good thing that the US Press are unethical cowards and the US Public is to put it mildly, stupid. Will they buy this bullshit? Probably, but let me give the press a little hint. We have had pay as you go for many years. It is called the Social Security System.
There has never been any money in social security. It has been financed by a regressive flat tax on employers and employees. That has been possible, because the country was rich enough to afford it, had a work ethic and had a credit rating to sustain it.
Pay as you go in social security mean that you actually had to work. Will health care be dependent on your working? Of course not. Pay as you go social security was work based not need based.