Government Family Planning

"Austrian economics has long understood that government subsidies of private activities distort incentives, encouraging recipients to use and/or provide more of the services than would otherwise be the case, and to devote resources to lobbying for the protection and promotion of the services (Hayek 1988; Rothbard 1978, pp. 140-70). An excellent example of these tendencies exists in the government-subsidized family-planning industry."