All Posts Tagged With: "wasteful spending"
Health Care’s Muddled Incentives
On the topic of health care, what empirical observations are reliable? Unfortunately, many “facts” come freighted with a great deal of ideological baggage. Those skeptical of markets, who favor a large role for government in health care, tend to emphasize statistics that disparage the American healthcare system. For supporters of markets, it is tempting to try to [...]
23Oct2009 | Arnold Kling | 15 comments | ContinuedEmergency Stimulus?
Last week congressional Democrats unveiled their $825 Billion dollar ‘stimulus’ package. Some big ticket items in this “emergency” bill are:$600 million for the federal government to buy new cars* $650 million for DTV conversion coupons $50 million for the National Endowment of Arts $200 million to go toward planting grass on the National Mall*I wonder [...]
19Jan2009 | Ben Stafford | 6 comments | Continued-
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