Bootleggers and Baptists

by Don Boudreaux on February 15, 2009

in Politics

George Will's latest Newsweek column is wise and wonderful — not least because it mentions Russ and our good friend Bruce Yandle.

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  • William Bruce

    "Someday the lefties will have to answer for the mess."


    -- doubtful, otherwise such measures would rarely be passed in the first place.


    That is the beauty of our political system (and really, all modern, bureaucratic systems): the role of accountability, and therefore incentives, is so distorted and defanged that any contextual use of the concept is a grotesque, albeit profoundly ironic, joke.


    It really should not be necessary to broach such a subject at Cafe Hayek, where this is more or less an intellectual given.

  • maximus

    "Someday the lefties will have to answer for the mess"


    Maybe in the same way the French aristocrats did.

  • vidyohs

    George, Ben, Thomas, John, Patrick, Samuel, where are you guys now that we need you so badly.

  • save_the_rustbelt

    The really bad news...


    One of the largest health care reform bills in history was passed within the stimulus without a minutes discussion or debate.


    Someday the lefties will have to answer for the mess.

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