I really try to stress this "there's no such thing as a free lunch" concept with my students too. It's always funny to me how quickly they get it and the other basics of economics, and how somewhere between middle-school and Washington it seems to get lost. Free education, free health care, free food....
No concept of incentives and motives here at all. 
What to do? |
That's okay, parsig. Some politicians still don't understand why raising the minimum wage leads to layoffs. (Limited pot of money...more to each employee...Oops! That means someone's gotta go...!) Not a difficult concept, but it still escapes them.....