Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman once remarked, “One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.” Today, on both the left and right, inefficiency of government policies is all but taken for granted. Many political stances are based on the idea that there is little the […]
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America Works Works
In the latest season of House of Cards, Frank Underwood proudly proclaims “America Works works.” And it does. However, the America Works that exists in reality (the subject of the remainder of this article) is nothing like the fictional plan proposed in the television series. It does not threaten to raid FEMA funds or cut from […]