Tuesday, January 5, 2010

States as laboratories

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"It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system that a single courageous State may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country."
Louis D. Brandeis, Supreme Court Justice from 1916 to 1939.


[As always, select to enlarge.]

Source: The Reason Foundation's Annual Privatization Report using data from the 2009 American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) report.

Net domestic migration (among US states), 1998-2007:

New York: -1,936,127.

California: -1,438,480.

Illinois: -735,768.

Texas: +736,903.

Arizona: +817,169.

Florida: +1,579,704.

Source: The 2009 ALEC report.
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[The historic, dependable, predictable correlation between minimal government and growth vs. big government and deterioration - but we've stopped teaching our voting citizens history.]
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