PolicyGuy

Tuesday, June 29, 2004


Subliminal Messages on Sports Team Website.
I noticed that one of the menus on the Minnesota Twins web site has these two entries side-by-side: "New ballpark" and "Fantasy."

That pretty much sums up the attitudes of mega-millionaire team owners and mere multi-millionaire players: a new ballpark fantasy--paid for at the public expense.

O wait. I forgot. Subsidizing the private business of men who can play games for a living is so vital to the public interest that it requires taxpayer money. Isn't it?

"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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