Can you trust Arnold Kling's economic judgment? Find out.

Independent economist and Cato Institute affiliate Arnold Kling comments on the recent Jeff Jacoby column and says (econlog.econlib.org/archives/2009/11/a_good_line.html):

If you had a store that was the only place people could go to buy bread, and people had to wait for hours to get to the checkout counter, some ordinarily honest people would end up stealing out of frustration. We need to fix the checkout counter in our immigration store. Right now, the people our system hurts the most are the people who try to get in legally.

Because I've had problems with comments left there in the past and I may have been banned, I didn't spend too much time on the following comment I left. I got an error message after leaving the comment, probably indicating that I've been banned for showing how he and Bryan Caplan are wrong too many times:

...and, eventually millions of those "ordinarily honest people" would "end up stealing out of frustration", despite the fact that they had no right to the bread in the first place. And, that would build a culture of illegality, impacting everyone in the neighborhood. And, their gov't would encourage them to steal. And, some "cops" (actually, U.S. politicians) would in effect be paid off to look the other way, leading to corrupting the whole system.

Perhaps economists should look at everything involved in what they promote.

See the "column" link above for all the other things Kling doesn't understand.

Comments

One word no in fact you can't trust any of the shit rats inside any area of government state or obamas pigs inside the former US federal government all of the pig shits hate us and want us dead as a people and as a cultural/social force for good over evil ideals like in mexico and the third world monkey shits. Get what i mean?