PolicyGuy

Tuesday, June 27, 2006


We're #1! We're #1!
Here's one place where you may not want to be #1: total per-capita tax burden. Here's a link to the latest full-year ranking from the Census Bureau. (Here is the referring page.)

Even if a state slides down in the ranking, that's not necessarily a sign that government is getting smarter, right-sized, or anything like that. It could simply mean that other states have been more spendthrift.

"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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