John Hood: Government is like vitamins – you don’t want an overdose

Do you take vitamins? You probably should. It ensures that even if you don’t always maintain a varied and healthful diet, your body gets the baseline level of nutrients. But vitamins are worth taking only at normal doses. If you take three or four times the recommended daily dose, you don’t get three or four times as healthy. You just waste your money, give your bodily fluids an interesting hue andin some cases risk a dangerous condition known as hypervitaminosis. In other words, there really can be too much of a good thing. The concept has broad application. While buying a home...