Source: Bet On It
by Bryan Caplan
“Suppose taxpayers are subsidizing air pollution. ‘Cutting the subsidies wouldn’t have a large effect on pollution, and the people getting subsidies are poor’ is a good argument that the subsidies aren’t awful. But it hardly shows that subsidizing air pollution is actually a good idea. I say the same logic is at play here. As long as middle-class families are eager to adopt, why should government subsidize non-adoption?” (11/04/25)
https://www.betonit.ai/p/adoption-and-the-welfare-state-reply