"Participants in today's political tussles always prefer to debate 'how much' rather than 'whether'," wrote professor Richard Epstein of the University of Chicago law school (otherwise known as the school of law and economics). Rather than debating whether there should be a minumum wage or incomes taxes, most political discussion focuses only on how much we should increase or decrease whatever governmental program.
Shockingly enough, Epstein would find an ally in Democratic candidate John Kerry. Well, the John Kerry of 1996 that is. The then senatorial candidate called for a reduction in federal bureaucracy by dissolving the Departments of Energy and Agriculture.
I know that Kerry supported NAFTA but this position goes beyond Clintonesque politics.
Too bad Kerry will eventually retract it.
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