Neoconservatism and Government Competence
23rd October 2011
David Bernstein boils it down into a single pithy paragraph.
At some point, however, a contradiction became apparent: if I didn’t trust the government to competently run, say, public schools, what made me think that the the government, subject to the same public-choicey and other constraints, would be competent at handling the much more complex task of remaking other societies in America’s image?
And that’s the question that faces us all. Every time a statist pushes for another government program, the question needs to be: What if this is run like the Post Office? ‘Cause it’s gonna be; history is quite clear on that.