France Burns the Socialist Dream
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Jim Rand looks at the French protests that turned into riots, with town halls and tourist offices burned, shops looted, and a Lyon shop owner confronting the Green mayor the next morning. He applies Milton Friedman’s results-over-intentions and incentives lens to show why high education spending still produces missing teachers and crumbling buildings while debt and pensions eat the budget, and why young taxpayers on both sides of the Atlantic pay the price for systems that protect the…
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