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Posted in Government Gone Wild, Paternalism on Mar 15th, 2011
And then they came for the … incense and perfume! You cannot make this up” Yesterday I pointed to Portland’s pending ban on perfumes and colognes in city buildings, and noted that this is how bans on smoking in all public places began. Your turn, Nevada: Critics say a Nevada bill banning air fresheners and candles […]
Posted in Government Gone Wild on Mar 15th, 2011
From Coyote: The baseline takes state government budgets and grows them by population growth and inflation. In other words, baseline spending in 2007 would be the same real level per capita as in 2002. The Total Revenue line is the actual revenue collections by state governments. Actual collections grew about 4 times faster than population […]
Posted in Corporatism, History, You Can't Have it Both Ways on Mar 15th, 2011
Episode 1: The Dawn of the Progressive Era In 1890 the US passed the Sherman Antitrust act, which had as its goal the elimination of monopolies or attempts to monopolize. This was the dawn of the Progressive Era (needless to say, this act was passed on behalf of big business, don’t like your HS history […]
