Government has never been practical. It was deliberately set up to be slow moving and relatively dumb.
But yes, I think accurate measurement of the costs and benefits of legistlation would be nice. But I will settle for making it in some way illegal, or at least politically painful, to suppress the accurate numbers, when they are available. When Medicare Reform was passed, the analyst who had the correct numbers was told that he would get fired if he published them. The Administration deliberately gave numbers that were half the actual cost. Absolutely nothing happened when this came out.
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Date: 2006-06-15 04:30 am (UTC)But yes, I think accurate measurement of the costs and benefits of legistlation would be nice. But I will settle for making it in some way illegal, or at least politically painful, to suppress the accurate numbers, when they are available. When Medicare Reform was passed, the analyst who had the correct numbers was told that he would get fired if he published them. The Administration deliberately gave numbers that were half the actual cost. Absolutely nothing happened when this came out.