Bad prices, public spending, and poverty
Matt Yglesias points to this Heritage report that suggests the living standards of the poor have gotten better over the years so poverty isn’t really a big deal anymore. He writes: A serious person...
Tagged: domestic policy
Policy Pet Peeves (or the political cost of the hidden welfare state)
(cross-posted from my blog) Atrios: One of my longstanding pet peeves is that everyone in the US pretends we don’t have an “industrial policy” because that implies naughty state intervention in certain sectors. But...
You say Obama, I say Osama
I read this post over at The Dish and quite honestly thought it said “Obama” and not “Osama.” Which changes everything, of course. Read the following passage substituting the word Osama with Obama: Paul...
public plans, vouchers, and choice
“This, then, is the fundamental conservative problem: you can either have universal coverage or you can have a quasi-free market. There’s no way to have both, but no one is willing to say publicly...
pet projects
So Dan Miller critiqued me and conservatives in general for not talking about health policy enough, and he’s right. We haven’t. Part of this is because when it comes to government planning there is...
