Sharpe's Opinion
Friday, 12th Dec, 2008
Government Projects Should Be Judged on Merit
Andrew Lilico on CentreRight, in the middle of an interesting essay on government spending, came out with this gem of a parenthetic statement:
This is why I disagree with David B. Smith, Allister Heath and others concerning whether there is an “optimal size of the State”. In my view there is not: whatever the size of the state, the virtue of each additional government project depends, overwhelmingly, on its own individual merits.
Bingo. Far better than expanding or contracting the state to meet some specific ideological concern.
Yes, but “merits” or lack thereof depend on what you’re trying to achieve, which has to do with priorities, so ideology creeps in through the back door
asquith
December 13, 2008 at 4:30 pm