George
F. Will AGAIN!
"In economics, rent-seeking
is an attempt to obtain economic rent [for our purposes, profit.
ed.] by manipulating the social and political environment in which
economic activities occur, rather than by creating new wealth.
Rent-seeking implies extraction
of uncompensated value from others without making any contribution to
productivity.
--from Wikipedia
"The Michigan Watershed on Right
to Work" by George F. Will
"By becoming the 24th
right-to-work state, Michigan is belatedly becoming serious
about what Daniel Boorstin, the late historian and Librarian of
Congress, called entrepreneurial federalism. This is the
wholesome
competition among states to emulate others’ best practices
and to avoid and exploit others’ follies."
Ah, that last sentence. On the surface, so reasonable, so just, so far-sighted. But then a reader must realize that what George Will is talking about is giving tax breaks, tax, incentives, tax forgiveness to companies that re-locate, the brashest, most blatant form of rent-seeking (see above). Their re-location dos not add wealth. It merely extracts value from the ordinary taxpayer to provide even more profit for the owners/stockholders ... with no addition to productivity.
Nice work, if you can get it.
What a wonderful exemplar of capitalism is George Will.
Ah, that last sentence. On the surface, so reasonable, so just, so far-sighted. But then a reader must realize that what George Will is talking about is giving tax breaks, tax, incentives, tax forgiveness to companies that re-locate, the brashest, most blatant form of rent-seeking (see above). Their re-location dos not add wealth. It merely extracts value from the ordinary taxpayer to provide even more profit for the owners/stockholders ... with no addition to productivity.
Nice work, if you can get it.
What a wonderful exemplar of capitalism is George Will.
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