"When government controls more money, those with the best lobbyists pocket most of it."
That one line in the linked article has done more to make me re-think the appropriate size of government than has a decade of neo-con rhetoric!
The jumping off point for the article is that the Washington DC area now has seven of the ten richest counties in the US. What does that mean about the state of of the United States of America, when wealth is concentrating around the halls of power?
http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2012/09/capital-takers?fsrc=nlw
That one line in the linked article has done more to make me re-think the appropriate size of government than has a decade of neo-con rhetoric!
The jumping off point for the article is that the Washington DC area now has seven of the ten richest counties in the US. What does that mean about the state of of the United States of America, when wealth is concentrating around the halls of power?
http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2012/09/capital-takers?fsrc=nlw
