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Your analogy is actually a pretty charitable reading. HN often discusses how the best coders are sometimes the ones who produce less code. Some principled fisca
by celoyd 16y ago
Your 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.