[Speed Gibson,
Tuesday April 18, 2006 at 11:30am]
Policy Guy
One of my blog roll favorites is Policy Guy. I see he's taking this week off, and he deserves a break. He's posted many interesting articles the past few weeks.
- Among the many fiscal problems facing the city of Detroit: employee benefits that are on average 88 percent of employee salaries.
- One of the most obvious cases of government waging war on economic sense is rent control. Fortunately, it's practiced in only a few places, notably, New York City. The things that people do to maintain their rent-controlled units sound like something out of an episode of Seinfeld, I would guess (never having watched an entire episode).
- The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities laments that Colorado is 49th in the country in education spending. Sounds horrible, doesn't it? It's amazing that anyone in that state knows how to read and write. Except ... the ranking--as the CBPP page points out--calculates states the "percentage of personal income" spent on K-12 education.
Still, I don't trust the "numbers." You can make any number say anything you want on both sides of an issue.