Source: American Institute for Economic Research
by Donald J Boudreaux
“By intellectual inconsistency I instead mean clinging to beliefs, offering arguments, or staking out — and sticking with — policy positions that are mutually contradictory. Intellectual consistency is no guarantee of being correct, but intellectual inconsistency is a sure sign of being incorrect. How many are the conservatives today who support the child tax credit while also proudly proclaiming their rejection of ‘market fundamentalism’ and accusing so-called ‘neoliberals’ of being blind to human motives other than those that are transactional? Whatever are the child tax credit’s merits or demerits as a public policy — that question is one that I here don’t address — that policy is a means of persuading adults to have more children by promising to put more money into adults’ pockets.” (08/29/24)
https://www.aier.org/article/free-market-fundamentals-and-natcon-inconsistencies/