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Tuesday, June 28, 2005


State Says: You're Not Paying Enough for Gasoline.
Really. The State of Minnesota requires that gas stations mark up gasoline at least 8 cents a gallon.

So much for the need for laws and regulations to protect the consumer.

Naturally, an official from the state says "Our complaints come from competitors [of stations selling cheaper gas], not consumers."

"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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