PolicyGuy
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Wednesday, September 28, 2005


Crime is Out of Control, But Look at Those Street Lights!
Detroit is struggling to pay cops and firefighters--but it's got plenty of money to pay a 100 percent premium on decorative street lights.

Blame it on the need to impress visitors to the Super Bowl, which will (allegedly) usher in a new age of prosperity and peace.

City officials defend the move to put in the new lights, saying that most of the money came from state and federal sources.

"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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