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Tuesday, December 30, 2003


Minnesota Makes Small Move Towards Toll Roads
According to a report by Minnesota Public Radio (link is likely to decay soon), "Gov. Tim Pawlenty says his administration is moving forward with plans to build toll lanes in the metro area."

Sounds like a plan. With state taxes already among the highest in the country, there's little room for raising taxes to pay for road expansion. Unfortunately, there is often little room for new lanes themselves.

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"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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