PolicyGuy

Thursday, May 25, 2006


Sometimes breaking one law is the least of your troubles.
"There ought to be a law!" is a sentiment that drives the creation of many counterproductive laws and regulations. Laws, of course, can't prevent every undesirable event.

After reading a newspaper text that reads "Driving without a license," Jay Leno adds that "I think that was the least of their problems."



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"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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