Every good magician has mastered the art of misdirection. Get the audience looking elsewhere so they don’t notice the trick being performed right in front of them.
Politicians have their own versions of this. Take President Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act, a piece of legislation that has nothing to do with reducing inflation, but instead pumps subsidies into green energy boondoggles.
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John Storey is the Director of Law and Policy at the Institute of Public Affairs
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