What I’m Reading — July 2nd

July 2nd, 2009
by Nathaniel Ward

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Congressmen Living High on the Taxpayer Dime.
An Economist’s Take on Big-Government Health Care. "What is curious is that this rise in education costs is deemed by the liberal establishment smart and farsighted while the rise in health-care costs is a curse to be stopped at any cost. What is curiouser still is that in education, where they always advocate more 'investment,' past increases have gone hand-in-hand with demonstrably deteriorating outcomes. The rising cost in health care has been accompanied by clearly superior results. Thus we would shift dollars from where they do a lot of good to an area where they don't."
Conservatives and Support Public Transportation "The most important thing that a liberal needs to know in talking to conservatives about public transportation is not to use liberal arguments. You can’t argue for transit on the basis that the poor need it."

Nathaniel Ward