Progressivism and the Koch Brothers

Started by redcliffsw, December 31, 2015, 06:54:17 AM

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In chapter after chapter Sowell describes how decades of research critical of government policy toward crime, minimum wage laws, regulation, and myriad other topics are routinely just ignored by all progressives everywhere, especially in all government schools, from kindergarten to the universities.

Ostrowski gives several examples of this, but Sowell's book contains dozens more.  Together they prove Ostrowski's point, with the obvious implication that all those mountains of "policy studies" produced by the Heritage Foundation, Cato Institute, and all the other DC "think tanks" have been one gigantic waste of time, effort, careers, and money. 

Has there ever even been one piece of legislation that causes a reduction of government in any way that has the name "Cato"or "Heritage" associated with it?  Or is it more likely that the existence of such organizations provides the Washington establishment with a cover by creating the false impression that there is actually a policy debate in the nation's capitol?

Read on:
https://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/progressivism-koch-brothers/




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