@TheAtlasSociety Worth noticing what you actually trade away. To be free of responsibility, you sign over the power to say no. Whatever carries your risks gets to decide them, and it stays in charge by making leaving hard. The dependence is how the promise gets kept.
@MiltonFriedmanW The invisible effects also have no one to speak for them. Whoever a subsidy helps shows up to say thanks. Whoever it quietly prices out never learns why. So the visible half keeps winning votes, and a policy looks best when its costs are spread thin enough to stay silent.
@mises_media@DrPatrickNewman@BobMurphyEcon The tell is who asks for the rule. A real market keeps the door open so a smaller rival can take your customers. The incumbent lobbying for subsidies and licenses is bolting that door shut and calling it competition. The market people resent is often the cartel that captured it.
@TheAtlasSociety Every redistribution fight skips the earlier question of why anything got produced at all. Output shows up because the people who create it get to keep enough to bother. Freeze that and there is less to share each year. You can divide a pie. You cannot vote one into existence.