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New York Governor Andrew Cuomo speaks during a daily briefing following the outbreak of the coronavirus in New York City, July 13, 2020.
(Mike Segar/Reuters)
Command and control is no way to run an economy. And the more centralized it is, the worse it becomes. We will doubtless be getting a taste of just how bad a system it can be if too many of the promises/threats contained in the Green New Deal are implemented in the next few years, but in the meantime, New York’s COVID-19 vaccination program is showing signs of the damage that over-centralization and bureaucratic overreach can bring in their wake.