News Flash: The New York Times Channels Milton Friedman
Bill McGurn ·
Jun 1, 2011 at 7:36am
From today's Times, which wonders whether overly generous government subsidies might be having ... well... unintended consequences:
With New York City’s shelter population near all-time highs, the Bloomberg administration is on the verge of ending its signature housing program for homeless families, saying the program’s generosity might have contributed to the problem.
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Jun '10
Re: News Flash: The New York Times Channels Milton Friedman
In many places it's illegal to feed the pigeons, because if you feed them regularly, pretty soon you have five thousand pigeons waiting for lunch everyday. And pigeons don't have social workers telling them where to show up.