Political Illogic

This is what passes for sophisticated argument in politics and the news media:

1. A (contraception, whatever) is desirable;
2. A costs money;
3. Therefore compulsory financing of A is both proper and imperative (either through taxation or an off-budget device such as “insurance”);
4. Opposition to 3 necessarily signals not only a denial of the desirability of A but also a wish to forbid the use of A.