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Ah yes, I never understood why on earth anyone would elect someone to public office that hates government so much they would try to destroy it... It would be l
by illumin8 16y ago
Ah yes, I never understood why on earth anyone would elect someone to public office that hates government so much they would try to destroy it... It would be like hiring a developer that hates code so much he would delete it from your repository to reduce kloc counts.
- celoyd 16y agoYour analogy is actually a pretty charitable reading. HN often discusses how the best coders are sometimes the ones who produce less code. Some principled fiscal conservatives don’t hate government, they have waste, and electing them to reduce the institution they’re part of is not absurd. For what it’s worth, I think starve-the-beast is empirically a bad strategy. But it’s not a logical fallacy, as people sometimes seem to think.
- ubernostrum 16y agoSome principled fiscal conservatives don’t hate government, they have waste, and electing them to reduce the institution they’re part of is not absurd. Unfortunately, principles do not win elections. The ones who actually win are the ones who want to deregulate business and regulate morals.