PolicyGuy
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Monday, August 30, 2004


Budget Deficit Calls for Structural Reforms
Michigan's new fiscal year starts in just over a month--and the state is already in a bind, with a projected deficit of $1 billion. This structural problem won't go away without significant reforms, as I argue in today's Holland Sentinel.

"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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