PolicyGuy

Tuesday, December 30, 2003


There Ought to Be a Law
Be careful what you wish for. The National Conference of State Legislatures says that 21 states will enact 500 new laws on January 1, 2004. A few are good, many bad, and most will have unintended consequences.

"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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