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Demosclerosis: The Silent Killer of American Government
a book by Jonathan Rauch
(our site's book review)
Demosclerosis is Rauch’s term for government’s progressive loss of the ability to adapt to being paralyzed by special interests, postwar politics and redistributive programs. The problem is in minimizing cumulative side effects. Government’s power to reassign resources energizes countless entrepreneurs to dig for gold by lobbying government. Politicians need more discipline. His four solutions:
- (1) raise taxes, cut spending, balance the budget;
- (2) eliminate as many subsidies and programs as possible and use the money saved for deficit reduction;
- (3) remove government restraints on competition; and
- (4) support free trade.
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