The Power of the Public Health Bureaucracy

Liberal progressives assume almost complete knowledge and think that they can figure out, oh of course, aspartame is a carcinogen. Whereas again, in ideal type, a conservative looks at these things and we really don't know. And so you want to either have clear rules in the case of the consumer welfare standard for adjudicating mergers or we want to say, you know, let's leave it up to the individual.