How to create populists.(THE LAST WORD)
American Prospect, The, January, 2007 by Reich, Robert B.
SEVERAL YEARS AGO I HAD A PHILOSOPHICAL conversation with my good friend and Cabinet colleague Bob Rubin over lunch in the White House mess. Cabinet members rarely talk philosophy. There isn't time. Mostly, they talk about how to put out the next fire. But on this rare occasion, Bob and I found ourselves talking philosophically.
It started as a discussion of a particular policy then being debated inside the Clinton White House but then became more theoretical. It came down to two simple questions. Suppose a proposed policy will increase the incomes of some people without ...
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