Need and public policy: Handle with care
Foundation for Economic Education
by Gary M. Galles
07/31/07
In public-policy debates the word most commonly invoked as the ace in the hole is ‘need.’ However, ‘need’ needs careful handling. ‘Need’ has the political advantage, but the logical disadvantage, of lacking a clear meaning. That allows it to be systematically abused to distort understanding and to reach desired conclusions that justify picking people’s pockets to pay for what someone else wants...
http://www.fee.org/in_brief/default.asp?id=1470
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Gary+M.+Galles
by Gary M. Galles
07/31/07
In public-policy debates the word most commonly invoked as the ace in the hole is ‘need.’ However, ‘need’ needs careful handling. ‘Need’ has the political advantage, but the logical disadvantage, of lacking a clear meaning. That allows it to be systematically abused to distort understanding and to reach desired conclusions that justify picking people’s pockets to pay for what someone else wants...
http://www.fee.org/in_brief/default.asp?id=1470
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Gary+M.+Galles
rudkla - 1. Aug, 11:21
