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Redistributing up

By Timothy P. Carney
Published January 7, 2012 5:00am ET
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Redistributing up
Increasing government power gives more influence to the politically connected, which is often whoever can hire up the most ex-Senators and cabinet members-turned lobbyists. That’s never Mom n Pop. George Will’s latest column waxes eloquently on this theme. Here he lays out the principle: Government becomes big by having big ambitions for supplanting markets as […]

Increasing government power gives more influence to the politically connected, which is often whoever can hire up the most ex-Senators and cabinet members-turned lobbyists. That’s never Mom n Pop.

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