This article was originally published at Townhall.com. Comments welcome there. There has been a lot of loose talk in liberal circles that the current housing crunch, inflation, and spike in energy prices somehow prove that the free market is fatally flawed. Markets haven’t worked, the argument goes, so bigger government is surely the answer. [...]
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Minneapolis Businesses: City Government Can’t Do its job
Despite the fact that Minneapolis ranks as one of the most expensive cities to do business in, the Downtown Council (a group of Minneapolis businesses) is pretty much giving up on the city doing its job of keeping downtown safe and pleasant to work and shop in. The Council is proposing that a “Downtown Improvement [...]
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More taxes = more civilization? Wrong.
Lunching in the sustainable urban environment the other day, I ran into Minnesota Speaker of the House Margaret Anderson Kelliher. I casually reminded the speaker, a DFLer, to take note and pay the new transit sales tax on her bistro bill. She was happy to pay it, she replied. “Taxes are the price we pay [...]
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