There is a sad reality. When a particular domain pursues progressive policies to the point that middle and lower class members of society cannot live there anymore, even progressive denizens vote with their feet and leave (see California). But - big "But" - these emigrants fleeing the inevitable results of the policies and programs they insist upon do not learn anything. They take their progressive policies and demands (read socialist/utopian) with them... and they begin corrupting and instilling those very same policies and demands in their new, briefly free, capitalist and affordable, location... with the same inevitable results (see Colorado). It is the proverbial Einsteinian definition of stupidity: doing the same thing again and again, but expecting different results each time.
The 'take your bad voting patterns with you' crowd are the people who have turned Oregon and Washington into the mess they are today. Now they are working on Idaho.
Dred Scott was a Supreme Court Ruling. Lincoln rejected applying Chief Justice Taney's opinion to parties beyond those involved in that particular case. He argued accurately that much of Taney's opinion was nonbinding dicta (although I don't believe that he used that word).
The Casa case concerns only District Court rulings, all of which President Trump has followed.
We have yet to learn whether President Trump will go as far as Lincoln went when it comes to rulings of the Supreme Court.
I appreciate low-growth housing regulations from the 1970s. It’s the very issue that redirected me from a career making wine to a career making trouble as a regulatory economist. The first study was about Petaluma; the second was about Davis. I was the data manager for both projects.
There is no moratorium on building houses in North Carolina. Certainly not in the small town of Zebulon where I reside. We may not have much in the way of restaurants, retail shopping, businesses and the like, but we do have homes being built on what seems like every square foot of available land. Sub-divisions here, there and everywhere, still very much in the process. It is a town for commuting to Raleigh, Wake Forest, Knightdale and elsewhere, to work, shop and seek services. Personally, I used to drive through this pass-thru town ever weekday to and from work on my on commute from Wake Forest to Goldsboro and back, and never though it was a town I would want to live in. But, upon my retirement, I just happened to find the perfect house, just under construction, for my needs in terms of size and budget. So here I am, for 14 years now. Still have no warm feelings for the town, but it does fulfill my purposes. Tomorrow I will be driving to Wake Forest, where I used to live, and where I drive to every week, four days a week, because there is something there. ;-)
You are a braver man that me... I started into “Abundance' and I was soon reminded of two things; that Ezra Klein is a poseur who makes a living by delivering (just slightly) uncomfortable truths to his NY Times coastal audience and that second I picked the wrong day to give up drinking.
I felt I was reading a revised version of that 1990s classic “Reinventing Government.” What happened to that phenomena, if the Left in its Progressive guide believes that (H)istory moves in a Hegelian fashion then why does our public policy need to be reinvented again? There's a story there, the same that turned the Green New Deal into throwing gold bars off the Titanic but Klein doesn't want to go where that road leads.
As I tell my students and mentees, if you want to change things don't tell me what's wrong and how you will fix it, go back 30 years and read what people said would be the the future and it never happened and then explain to me why it didn't – then tell me what you learned. Klein is simply a younger version of a 1990s Al Gore.
Great point about Klein being a poseur if he doesn't turn on the true source of the problem which are the interest groups of the Left that hold back the policies he thinks so dear – a miasma of transgressive and corrupt interests.
Klein won't ever do that because he holds to the old “Burger King Liberalism” of having it his way by simply piling together policies he likes without understanding how they all fit together. He's a guy who is all into nature, without understanding Nature and it's because of him that we have the sickness of people putting pineapple on pizza.
The radical left has exploited environmental concern to undermine capitalism and prosperity. The massive pollution created in communist economies has been shoved under the rug. Entire sectors of academia and industry depend on belief in blatant environmental lies.
2) Re: the 1979 book, I used to have a book whose title and author I cannot remember. It was more of an OSHA over-reach response than environmental as it talked about Ralph Nader’s brilliant expose Unsafe at any Speed. Ok, that was /s on except fir the title. But I think it applied to environmental BS also.
1) i recall reading somewhere quite a while ago that the Founding Fathers thought each of the three branches of the federal government were equally responsible for deciding what the Constitution meant, or something very similar to that. Marshall grabbed the authority to do so from the other two branches.
There is a sad reality. When a particular domain pursues progressive policies to the point that middle and lower class members of society cannot live there anymore, even progressive denizens vote with their feet and leave (see California). But - big "But" - these emigrants fleeing the inevitable results of the policies and programs they insist upon do not learn anything. They take their progressive policies and demands (read socialist/utopian) with them... and they begin corrupting and instilling those very same policies and demands in their new, briefly free, capitalist and affordable, location... with the same inevitable results (see Colorado). It is the proverbial Einsteinian definition of stupidity: doing the same thing again and again, but expecting different results each time.
The 'take your bad voting patterns with you' crowd are the people who have turned Oregon and Washington into the mess they are today. Now they are working on Idaho.
Is then word "locust" too harsh?
How about "lubber"? 🤣
I think not …. 🧐
This resembles what refugees from Massachusetts did to southern New Hampshire.
Speaking of 3WHH, I cannot believe that you and Lucretia let John get away with calling you ¨political theorists¨.
Yes, he clearly did that with malice aforethought!
Dred Scott was a Supreme Court Ruling. Lincoln rejected applying Chief Justice Taney's opinion to parties beyond those involved in that particular case. He argued accurately that much of Taney's opinion was nonbinding dicta (although I don't believe that he used that word).
The Casa case concerns only District Court rulings, all of which President Trump has followed.
We have yet to learn whether President Trump will go as far as Lincoln went when it comes to rulings of the Supreme Court.
I appreciate low-growth housing regulations from the 1970s. It’s the very issue that redirected me from a career making wine to a career making trouble as a regulatory economist. The first study was about Petaluma; the second was about Davis. I was the data manager for both projects.
There is no moratorium on building houses in North Carolina. Certainly not in the small town of Zebulon where I reside. We may not have much in the way of restaurants, retail shopping, businesses and the like, but we do have homes being built on what seems like every square foot of available land. Sub-divisions here, there and everywhere, still very much in the process. It is a town for commuting to Raleigh, Wake Forest, Knightdale and elsewhere, to work, shop and seek services. Personally, I used to drive through this pass-thru town ever weekday to and from work on my on commute from Wake Forest to Goldsboro and back, and never though it was a town I would want to live in. But, upon my retirement, I just happened to find the perfect house, just under construction, for my needs in terms of size and budget. So here I am, for 14 years now. Still have no warm feelings for the town, but it does fulfill my purposes. Tomorrow I will be driving to Wake Forest, where I used to live, and where I drive to every week, four days a week, because there is something there. ;-)
Steve,
You are a braver man that me... I started into “Abundance' and I was soon reminded of two things; that Ezra Klein is a poseur who makes a living by delivering (just slightly) uncomfortable truths to his NY Times coastal audience and that second I picked the wrong day to give up drinking.
I felt I was reading a revised version of that 1990s classic “Reinventing Government.” What happened to that phenomena, if the Left in its Progressive guide believes that (H)istory moves in a Hegelian fashion then why does our public policy need to be reinvented again? There's a story there, the same that turned the Green New Deal into throwing gold bars off the Titanic but Klein doesn't want to go where that road leads.
As I tell my students and mentees, if you want to change things don't tell me what's wrong and how you will fix it, go back 30 years and read what people said would be the the future and it never happened and then explain to me why it didn't – then tell me what you learned. Klein is simply a younger version of a 1990s Al Gore.
Great point about Klein being a poseur if he doesn't turn on the true source of the problem which are the interest groups of the Left that hold back the policies he thinks so dear – a miasma of transgressive and corrupt interests.
Klein won't ever do that because he holds to the old “Burger King Liberalism” of having it his way by simply piling together policies he likes without understanding how they all fit together. He's a guy who is all into nature, without understanding Nature and it's because of him that we have the sickness of people putting pineapple on pizza.
There are toppings even worse than pineapple, yet here we are.
The radical left has exploited environmental concern to undermine capitalism and prosperity. The massive pollution created in communist economies has been shoved under the rug. Entire sectors of academia and industry depend on belief in blatant environmental lies.
2) Re: the 1979 book, I used to have a book whose title and author I cannot remember. It was more of an OSHA over-reach response than environmental as it talked about Ralph Nader’s brilliant expose Unsafe at any Speed. Ok, that was /s on except fir the title. But I think it applied to environmental BS also.
Two thoughts.
1) i recall reading somewhere quite a while ago that the Founding Fathers thought each of the three branches of the federal government were equally responsible for deciding what the Constitution meant, or something very similar to that. Marshall grabbed the authority to do so from the other two branches.