Fiscal savings claims mix genuine gains with rhetorical relabeling of cuts
Evidence
- I put “real” in quotes because when a saving is real and when it represents a reduction in governmental effort is an empirical and normative question. Sometimes crisis can force management to attend to costs so that real savings are discovered, e.g., energy conservation by redUCing unnecessary wattage in bulbs. But at other times a change is simply justified by calling it duplication or waste reduction although it may not be. — Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy, 1816
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Liberals challenge the service state indirectly through fiscal-scare arguments rather than openly — Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy: Dilemmas of…, 103