To the Editor:
I would like to thank Paul Krugman for clarifying his position on Hillary Clinton’s health care proposal. When, in the last debate, Mrs. Clinton stated that Mr. Krugman preferred her health care plan to Bernie Sanders’s, I thought I had to clean out my ears.
Now all is clear—as a Nobel Prize-winning economist, Mr. Krugman thinks that Mr. Sanders’s plan is superior to Mrs. Clinton’s. In his role as a political pundit, however, Mr. Krugman thinks that Mr. Sanders’s plan would not be feasible to get through Congress. So the best we can do is improve on the current law.
As an economist, Mr. Krugman has year after year been right in his judgments, and I put a lot of trust in them. But as a political pundit, his view has no more authority than that of any other talking head. Mrs. Clinton was disingenuous to cite Mr. Krugman’s support without making it clear that he was not offering an economic opinion.
BRETT L. GOLD
New York
Note from KBJ: This is precious. "Bush-Hatin' Paul" Krugman has been pontificating on politics, morality, law, military affairs, and every other subject for well over a decade. He has no expertise or authority in any of those areas. His economic expertise is technical in nature; it gives him no evaluative authority of any kind. It's good to see a Leftist acknowledge this. Where have you been, Brett Gold? When Krugman's interventions were to your liking, you remained silent. When he offers a political judgment with which you disagree, you wail.
