General06 Apr 2009 02:58 pm
Liberalism And The Danger Of First-Order Thinking
There are two basic ways to look at the spending priorities of a government institution.
The first is to examine the public’s underserved needs to determine where money should be allocated. The second is to consider where the money comes from to pay for it all.
Both perspectives are critical, and both perspectives help to shape the impacts of government policy. But few who analyze policy spend much time on the latter view.