Is a Porkocracy Better Than an Investocracy?

Economics Economics Questions
1

Many here think that the government that governs least governs best. We hear much ballyhoo from the Republicans about stimulus pork. Republicans claim to favor investments over pork-barrel spending. Obama, in a moment of frankness, states the obvious - a stimulus bill is a spending bill. GASP!

Is it better, assuming these two bleak alternatives as the only ones, for the government to spend on pork (condoms, water parks, etc) or investments (infrastructure, education, etc)?

2

impossible to calculate?

3

There is no way to know. Both decisions are made using political forces rather than market forces.

4

Well, if you think “the state” should not exist, it seems to me that their involvement would be less destructive if it were involved in less vital areas.