Jonathan Gruber: The Gift That Keeps on Giving
8th March 2015
Steve Hayward remarks on the latest by the architect of the Obamacare exchanges fiasco.
Certainly Gruber’s suggestion of taxation of body weight to solve the ‘obesity epidemic’ is ludicrous, but it illustrates the way statists thing: Every problem that the intellectual clerisy thinks is a problem is properly a subject for government action, and taxation is not just a means for getting necssary government revenue but a tool of social manipulation to coerce the Great Stupidity of the Unenlightened to do things The Right Way.
People who express such proclivities ought to be debarred from government service.