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Jens 'n' Frens
Idle thoughts of a relatively libertarian Republican in Cambridge, MA, and whomever he invites. Mostly political.
"A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures." -- Daniel Webster
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Monday, July 07, 2003 :::
"[I]gnorance of the law is no defense", my brother notes, and that is a principle that makes sense so long as the law is reasonably knowable; it creates the appropriate incentives for people to be informed of the law, while the converse encourages ignorance of it. What is missing is an incentive for the government to make knowledge of the law cheap and easy; too much modern analysis of public policy in the popular press seems to suppose that incentives for government aren't necessary. Remember, Constitutional inefficiencies were put there on purpose.On a not entirely unrelated note, I'm not opposed to the state government using its real estate holdings as a rainy-day fund, though it seems a bit misleading to claim to have thereby balanced the budget in any but a statutory sense.
::: posted by dWj at 12:29 PM
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