Hillary and the Colonel
4 February 2008
Editor, The Wall Street Journal
200 Liberty Street
New York, NY 10281
To the Editor:
Whenever this economist reads the campaign advertisements that masquerade as opinion pieces in respectable newspapers - such as Hillary Clinton's "My Plan for Shared Prosperity" in your edition today - I feel like I imagine Julia Child must have felt whenever she heard Colonel Sanders brag about his "secret recipe." No matter how many primitive taste buds his recipe satisfies at first bite, in the end it produces only uninteresting junk food that's hazardous to human health.
Sincerely,
Donald J. Boudreaux
Chairman, Department of Economics
George Mason University
Editor, The Wall Street Journal
200 Liberty Street
New York, NY 10281
To the Editor:
Whenever this economist reads the campaign advertisements that masquerade as opinion pieces in respectable newspapers - such as Hillary Clinton's "My Plan for Shared Prosperity" in your edition today - I feel like I imagine Julia Child must have felt whenever she heard Colonel Sanders brag about his "secret recipe." No matter how many primitive taste buds his recipe satisfies at first bite, in the end it produces only uninteresting junk food that's hazardous to human health.
Sincerely,
Donald J. Boudreaux
Chairman, Department of Economics
George Mason University
Posted by Don Boudreaux on
Thursday June 26, 2008 at 8:27pm