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Yeah, that's why I generalized the argument to X. Government intervention is generally a bad thing, not only a bad thing in a few very limited cases.
by randallsquared 17y ago
Yeah, that's why I generalized the argument to X. Government intervention is generally a bad thing, not only a bad thing in a few very limited cases.
- pyre 17y agoWouldn't it then be better to rail against specific policies that are either not proven or proven to be bad than to just say, "screw it all, we'll do nothing?"
- randallsquared 17y agoIt might be more effective, but it's unclear: I don't know of any strategy that's likely to actually help significantly in rolling back the scope of government, by any metric. (I'm not saying there isn't any, only that I don't know what it would be). Note, though, that even people who want the government to do less aren't saying "we'll do nothing", they're saying "we want to choose which things to do ourselves". No one needs a law or regulation to spend their own money, it's only required when you want someone else's money spent without having to convince them they should.