[alan]

http://www.cato.org/dailys/10-03-03.html

The following attributed to LBJ.

Legislative proposals must be judged against the following frame of reference. Not how much good might be accomplished, in the event that the legislation is properly enforced, but how much damage might be done by the improper enforcement of said legislation. Not Johnson's exact wording, but the forgoing has the general sense of his observation.

[Quartus]

:what: I sure wish he had applied that standard to his "Great Society" ideas!


The law of unintended consequences, espoused by a liberal? Amazing!

[Standing Wolf]

I sure wish he had applied that standard to his "Great Society" ideas!

Might've rained shiny new silver dollars, too. If leftists were capable of thinking ahead, they wouldn't be leftists, but conservatives or libertarians.

[alan]

Standing Wolf and Quartus:

Re comments on the thoughts of LBJ, the guy, who in my opinion, was surely a giant sized POS, might have been any number of things. Stupid wans't really any of them however.

Other than that, how did the CATO piece strike readers?

[Augustwest]

Other than that, how did the CATO piece strike readers?


Spot on is how it struck me.

But most of what comes from CATO does.

Kool Aid is Kool Aid, whether it's sold to you by a donkey or an elephant.