George Will to Robert Reich: “You are a pyromaniac in a field of strawmen”

We need more George Wills, but since that’s not likely, I’m thankful for George Will. In a Right v. Left debate on ABC’s This Week, George Will had this to say to liberal economist, Robert Reich:

Big government inevitably exacerbates the problem of inequality. Big government inevitably is a servant of the strong. I’ll give you two examples. The tax code has been changed 4,500 times in the last decade. Every one of those times at the service of a group strong enough and attentive enough and wealthy enough to hire a Washington lawyer to represent them to game the tax code.

The welfare state exists to transfer wealth basically from the working young and retired elderly — working young and middle aged to the retired elderly. The elderly are, according to the CBO study, the net worth of a family of a household on average, household headed by someone 65 years old or older is 47 times larger than that of the net worth of a household of someone 35 or younger. That’s a record, and has doubled in the last five years. Big government is responsive to big, muscular interest groups.

Take a look:

(h/t Newsbusters)

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