Hooking and Slicing
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Compare and contrast these two passages:
David Brooks in NYT Magazine:
PolicyGuy:
If the "parameters" within which Democrats and Republicans debate don't include whether public luxury golf courses are appropriate, then a third major party -- a small-l libertarian third major party, is inevitable.
David Brooks in NYT Magazine:
Socialism has stopped its march. Now almost every leading politician accepts that government should not interfere with the basic mechanisms of the market system. On the other hand, almost every leading official acknowledges that we should have as much of a welfare state as we can afford. Now the debate over the role of the state takes place within much narrower parameters.
PolicyGuy:
The Village of Bolingbrook, a distant suburb of Chicago, now has its own, village-run golf course. It sure looks nice, and at $65 a round (a discounted rate for village residents), it flunks the "affordability" test, at least for hackers like me. So what was the rationalization offered here? The municipal government needs to build a luxury golf course to distinguish its city from everyone else.
If the "parameters" within which Democrats and Republicans debate don't include whether public luxury golf courses are appropriate, then a third major party -- a small-l libertarian third major party, is inevitable.
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