Krugman: Be skeptical of those who offer too much choice March 4, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail Texas Lt. Gov Dan Patrick recently said people hit with sky high power bills should have “read the fine print.” Funny, isn’t it, how politicians who denounce liberal elitists sneer when ordinary Americans get into trouble?Tim Fischer /Midland Reporter-Telegram Dan Patrick, the lieutenant governor of Texas, is clearly what my father would have called a piece of work. Early in the pandemic he made headlines by saying that older Americans should be willing to risk death so that younger people could “get back to work.” More recently, he suggested that Texans who found themselves with $17,000 electricity bills after the February freeze had only themselves to blame, because they didn’t “read the fine print.”