| | ...[President Obama and other statists] say many things they probably do not believe. (That a government-run "public option" health insurance would not extinguish or even harm private insurance; that cap-and-trade carbon regulations will raise energy costs without injuring the economy; that taxing Peter to subsidize Paul's purchase of a new car is a sound basis for economic growth; that a 85 percent unspent stimulus has routed the recession, etc.)
George Will is on a roll in this column - eloquent and on target. Go read what he has to say about "Auto Stock for Every Taxpayer Act" and "TARP Recipient Ownership Trust Act," and when he gets to Samuel Bellow's novel, this column becomes brilliant! The small secret souls of our opponents are laid bare.
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Having aggressively, even promiscuously, blurred the distinction between public and private sectors with improvised and largely unauthorized interventions in the economy, will [President Obama and other statists] ever countenance a retreat of the state? Or do they have an aspiration that they dare not speak?
