Comments on: an “iPod government” vs. the EITC http://adswithoutproducts.com/2008/05/05/an-ipod-government-vs-the-eitc/ Thu, 07 Aug 2008 21:04:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU By: Dave http://adswithoutproducts.com/2008/05/05/an-ipod-government-vs-the-eitc/#comment-717 Dave Mon, 05 May 2008 02:28:28 +0000 http://adswithoutproducts.com/2008/05/05/an-ipod-government-vs-the-eitc/#comment-717 Any worthwhile 'socialist' project should also take on the byzantine regulatory complex of neoliberalism, which is frequently a direct product of the center-left's approach to statism. In terms of concrete good, it's one way in which 'conservatism' - as an approach to problem solving rather than as an ideology - sometimes bests center-lefty interventionism, which has a tendency to perfectionism and often holds the idea that their illusions of control are realizable via bureaucracy. Even a more conservative platform of the Obama/iPod style is likely to do more to help people than Clinton's bureaucratic (perfectionist, technocratic) approach, which fails to account for the huge transaction costs of compliance. Any worthwhile ’socialist’ project should also take on the byzantine regulatory complex of neoliberalism, which is frequently a direct product of the center-left’s approach to statism. In terms of concrete good, it’s one way in which ‘conservatism’ - as an approach to problem solving rather than as an ideology - sometimes bests center-lefty interventionism, which has a tendency to perfectionism and often holds the idea that their illusions of control are realizable via bureaucracy.

Even a more conservative platform of the Obama/iPod style is likely to do more to help people than Clinton’s bureaucratic (perfectionist, technocratic) approach, which fails to account for the huge transaction costs of compliance.

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