If the government is to tell big business men how to run their
business, then don’t you see that big business men have to get closer
to the government even than they are now?
–Woodrow Wilson
–Woodrow Wilson
Quoted in this piece by Edward L. Glaeser:
In the wake of
Hurricane Katrina, I also argued that it would be far better to give generous checks
to the poor hurt by the storm than to spend billions rebuilding the
city, because those rebuilding efforts would inevitably help connected
contractors more than ordinary people.
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Sensible infrastructure projects wouldn’t disproportionately employ the least-skilled Americans. Forgoing the payroll tax for households earning less than $75,000 a year is surer progressivism than bridge-building.
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Sensible infrastructure projects wouldn’t disproportionately employ the least-skilled Americans. Forgoing the payroll tax for households earning less than $75,000 a year is surer progressivism than bridge-building.
