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How Evil are Politicians? (with Bryan Caplan)

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Is It Demagogery?

In demagogery, which is the word you use a lot in the book and in the subtitle a, is it demagogic to take this political phasing in position? You don't have to agree with us on minimum wage, ight? You don’t have to totally agree with our substitive policy positions. The most that i think you can ever get a politician of this sort to do is to say, well, wat people on our side say. And then they go and they get some favorable numbers and then say, ok, great. Let's go and use those numbers. That is not an intellectually honest thing to do. It is evil.

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