George Will - 7/14/2013: "Information improves the efficiency of markets - and of governments, too. There are systemic reasons why democratic governments (and "independent agencies") frequently behave foolishly: Politicians' constant incentive is to confer current benefits on targeted beneficiaries and to defer costs.""Secrecy is government regulation - the rationing of information. The collection and dissemination of useful information by government serve the deregulation of life by empowering the public to direct the government (and "independent agencies"), to judge its performance, and to decrease dependence on government by invigorating the private sector."
"In the absence of data, politicians pluck factoids from the ether..."
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