Jackoby on Government Failure

How government makes things worse - Jeff Jacoby writes about the law of unintended consequences and government failure in today’s Boston Globe. There are spooky parallels with failed government policies here at home.

“WHAT DO ethanol and the subprime mortgage meltdown have in common? Each is a good reminder of that most powerful of unwritten decrees, the Law of Unintended Consequences - and of the all-too-frequent tendency of solutions imposed by the state to exacerbate the harms they were meant to solve.”

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