Love it or hate it, the recently proposed 2018 federal budget is dead on arrival. Some say that’s because it’s unrealistic. Some contend that it’s too harsh on discretionary spending and/or too soft on calling for needed reform to some mandatory programs. And others say Republicans are never serious about cutting spending. Nonetheless, this budget, as bad as it is, should get credit for proposing a long list of targeted program cuts alongside justification for the requests.
The battle of ideas is important. If Nobel Prize winner Milton Friedman had never made the case and fought for school choice, many kids today would still be stuck in their falling public schools. If Nobel laureate Ronald Coase didn’t defend his idea that we should auction the airwaves, there would be less innovation in the wireless telecom sector today. If no one had fought for marijuana legalization and marriage equality, neither of these battles would have been won, either. Of course, winning the battle of ideas takes time, decades even. But it starts with fighting and making the case for what you believe, writes Veronique de Rugy.
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