Small-Government Egalitarianism

Some good thoughts here from Edward Glaeser which appeal to me. I still think this is a good time to get good infrastructure projects built. Also, tax reductions, even payroll tax reductions, don't do much to help the unemployed. I'd like to see an expansion of the Earned Income Tax Credit to help those between "good" jobs, expanded retraining and education spending to help reconfigure displaced workers for useful work, and health care reform to bring down costs and make basic coverage more available (a way to create larger insurance pools, such as Obama's proposal to allow people to buy into a government plan, allowing the government to use its power to bargain with drug companies, and to not spend so much on the expensive and often futile treatments for the ailments of the elderly are good places to start).