Arizona: The right experiment to run
Friday, June 11, 2010 at 12:08AM
Thomas P.M. Barnett in Citation Post

USA Today front-pager.

Best thing about America is that we’ve got 50 simultaneous experiments in government going on, with people able to vote with their votes, their feet, their checking accounts, etc.

Arizona wants to change the paradigm on enforcement of legal alien laws, and in doing so, they’ll definitely scare off a lot of Latinos, in addition to taking various degrees of heat.

But it’s a good experiment to run, because if it works, and AZ likes it that way, the ideas will spread.  And if it doesn’t or costs too much, then AZ will be made to pay in various ways.

But at least the state is trying, however imperfectly, and that’s how it’s supposed to work.

But yes, I’d love to have more than 50 experiments running, including some all-Mexican ones. Time to open up this HOA, because this gate community thing ain’t working.

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