yup!!
“Such benefits appeal to workers, who don’t realize that the goodies come out of their wages. The unemployed don’t realize that such rules deter employers from hiring them in the first place.”
Thank you Mr. Stossel. Well said.
He did identify that almost everything done by a central planing agency/government has unintended consequences that are almost always counter to the intentions. But, why?
If we lived in a static, unchanging, society then a central planning authority/government would work because there would be no changes between the time a problem was identified and the fix for it implemented.
But, we don't live in a static, unchanging, society.
By the time the problem is identified, a fix is developed and coordinated, and the fix makes it into operation the conditions have changed. If the problem was serious enough the people at the point of impact have already taken corrective action.
Visualize any physically active sport being run by a central planning authority/government. One team would be the centralist team and the other freedom team. Does anyone want to imagine the final score? Much less the standings at the end of the season!
BTW - which team would attract all the competitive players who actually want to win?
Enough said.
Yep. There to provide a useless "solution" to a problem which did not exist or which they created, and to demand our resources for it.