Sen. Toomey Defends Capitalism

Yesterday afternoon Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA) gave an excellent and much-need speech at the Heritage Foundation on capitalism and its right-leaning critics . Toomey maintained a reasonable and respectful manner, but made clear that he thinks that the anti-market measures promoted by self-described nationalists and populists are a mistake and would be a failure if enacted. When it comes to proposals to restrict trade or for government to favor certain industries over others, we need to be clear about what problems such policies would ostensibly be solving. In certain cases, the supposed problems exist mostly in the minds of […]

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