Schools, hospitals and public utilities stifle business, empirically dumb report says

A new report from the C.D. Howe Institute makes the case for why government investments in things like “public administration, education, health and utilities” are bad for the economy. There’s a glitch, though: the report never actually proves this core point. The report claims that “private-sector investment is a key driver of economic growth” and “more public-sector investment may discourage […]