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The Rightwing View on Bureaucracy Is Wrongheaded

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WEDNESDAY, JULY 31, 2024
Tariffs raise the price of, and reduce demand for, imported goods. Tariffs ensure the preferences of politicians, instead of the preferences of consumers, to determine how resources are allocated.

– Ron Paul
“Tariffs Are Not the Answer” [March 2018]

HORNBERGER’S BLOG
July 31, 2024
The Rightwing View on Bureaucracy Is Wrongheaded
Leave it to Donald Trump’s vice-presidential candidate J.D. Vance to enunciate the rightwing view on bureaucracy, a view that is diametrically opposed to the libertarian view. According to an article in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal, which criticizes Vance for his “disregard for the constitutional balance of powers and the rule of law,” Vance stated in a 2021 interview: “Fire every single …
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