QoTD candidates

Radley Balko:

If you’re looking for a bright side here, the “taxpayer advocate” did correctly warn me that the IRS would once again screw up this year. So if nothing else, I guess federal employees are at least pretty competent when it comes to predicting the incompetence of other federal employees.

Eric Crampton:

Suppose you started hanging out with Canadians. After a couple of months, a social scientist found that you had increased your likelihood of wearing plaid. And, you'd started listening to Rush. Does this mean that a taste for good fashion and good music constitutes a policy-relevant externality and we should subsidize flights to New Zealand from Canada to facilitate these positive interactions?