Funniest sentence I’ve read today
2007-10-18 · Original WordPress address
"This sort of thing drives me crazy because it's just so thoughtlessly arbitrary -- intellectual empty calories."
--- Economist blogger
Actually, the whole post is worth it. He (she? it?) riffs on the idea that negative externalities should be taxed (e.g. carbon emissions) but that some things are only externalities because of previous government intervention.