Recently a group of conservative intellectuals banded together to create a conservative policy reform agenda. Using the title “Room to Grow,” these self-styled reform conservatives are pushing conservatives to have a positive agenda, to be for something rather than simply blocking the liberal agenda. That is a good idea, on its face. The problem is that conservative social engineering has the same drawback as liberal social engineering: government is still distorting markets and picking winners and losers.
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