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Wednesday, March 30, 2005


How to Cure a Deficit? Taking on New Money-Losing Ventures is Not the Way.
The Commonwealth of Kentucky is facing a $29 million deficit. So what does state government do? Create a new state park, complete with a camp ground that will lose $300,000 per year.

The folks at the Bluegrass Institute for Public Policy Solutions must be shaking their heads.

"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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