The myth of an intellectual left

Atrios on health care:

Or you could just sign everyone up and pay for it out of taxes one way or another. I'm flexible about how exactly it's implemented after that, but the biggest absurdity in all of these plans it that you have to add additional complexity to the tax code, and a ridiculous additional layer of administration/bureaucracy.

So, to avoid additional administration/bureaucracy and complexity, we snap our fingers and tell Congress to pay the bill? Yeah, that'll work.