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Friday, February 16, 2007

The Rent-Seeking Habit

Wal-Mart's CEO and his chief nemesis, the head of the Service Employees International Union, have joined forces. They recently appeared together at a news conference to endorse "universal health care," sugar-words for medicine by coercive bureaucracy. No, this is not another article about why a government-based medical system is a terrible idea. This is an article about a business leader looking to the state for a bailout.
Read the rest of this week's TGIF column, "The Rent-Seeking Habit," at the Foundation for Economic Education website.

Cross-posted at Liberty & Power.

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