Posted by Jim Lindgren: The Death Throes of a Corvette.--- http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2009_08_16-2009_08_22.shtml#1250871804
In the Great Depression, the government paid to destroy crops in order to prop up farm prices -- about as dumb a policy as can be imagined. Today the government pays to destroy cars in order to ... frankly, I don't know why. [EMBED] Witness the dying gasps of a Corvette. Cash for Clunkers is a bizarre combination of the "broken windows fallacy" and the desire to change the climate of the planet. _______________________________________________ Volokh mailing list [email protected] http://lists.powerblogs.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/volokh
