PolicyGuy

Thursday, October 30, 2003


Raise My Taxes
The Detroit News--formerly a solid low-tax advocating paper--profiles the mayor of Huntington Woods, Michigan. Her latest project? Raise taxes. She is having some success winning over voters.

I am not too familiar with Huntington Woods, but I do have the sense that at some point some people have more money than sense. I've lived in such a city. At some point, people start thinking of government spending as a positive good. It is, of course, at a basic level, if it provides roads, a system of justice, and a few other items. But we have long passed that threshold in many communities.

"Justice Louis D. Brandeis'?s metaphor of the states as "laboratories" for policy experiments ... had almost nothing to do with federalism and everything to do with his commitment to scientific socialism. .... To this day, it continues to inhibit a truly experimental, federalist politics." -- Michael S. Greve

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