Ducks and Economics

“Ours is not too far from the system you’d design if you wanted health care to cost as much as possible.”

and

“Some government spending gives folks stuff they want. Some government spending is worse than stealing money, throwing it in a hole and burning it. This is obvious when you think about it for a second, but it sometimes seems that partisan political discourse is based on the refusal to think about it at all.”

-From Will Wilkinson