The Way They Used to Debate

Resolved: That We Should Move towards Privatization, Including the Schools-Part I

Blame

Economists deal with the allocation of scarce resources, blame is not a scarce resource.

Thomas Sowell

Nothing new

The law locks up the man or woman
Who steals the goose from off the common
But leaves the greater villain loose
Who steals the common from off the goose.

Anonymous, in The Tickler Magazine, February 1, 1821

first lesson

“The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.”

Thomas Sowell