Beltway silliness is as unavoidable as the summer humidity because rent-seeking groups, both economic and ideological, have powerful incentives to advocate legislation that would advance their interests at the expense of the economy in the aggregate. Nor is it difficult to find officeholders to make their arguments for them, even though, or perhaps because, they know better.
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