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I agree that this is not a tenuous connection, but you failed to mention in your first post that the wage freeze was during the Second World War. Oil was ration
by mattobrien 17y ago
I agree that this is not a tenuous connection, but you failed to mention in your first post that the wage freeze was during the Second World War. Oil was rationed. Factories converted for war production. The entire economy was mobilized behind the war effort. This is most definitely a case of unintended consequences as relating to health care, but your original post implied that the government just willy nilly intervened with health benefits, when the truth is that it was the side effect of mobilizing the economy for national survival.
- CWuestefeld 17y agoWhat you're saying is true, although I'd also throw in that in addition to the war effort, there was also the Depression and inflation driving this bad legislation. One might draw parallels today with the recession and the likelihood of inflation following unprecedented borrowing, but that's neither here nor there. In any case, I don't see how the specific motivation is relevant. The point is that the government is bad at anticipating the consequences of its actions. The initial motivation isn't what's important -- the end never justifies the means. The point is that pandering and public choice economics will always cause side effects.