Inverse incentives
Thomas Sowell again identifies an economic and social dichotomy:
"Our hearts automatically go out to the people of Florida, who are being battered by a series of hurricanes in rapid succession. But we have brains as well as hearts -- and the time is long overdue to start using them.Yes. Exactly what I've been thinking during the past few and currently impending hurricanes. More»
Hurricanes come through Florida every year about this time. And, every year, politicians get to parade their compassion by showering the taxpayers' money on the places that have been struck.
What would happen if they didn't?"
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