Unintended Candy Crunches

Chuck Muth reports yesterday:
“School administrators at Austin High School in Austin, Texas, latched onto this new obesity fad/crisis and decided to remove all the candy vending machines on campus. In light of the decision, some enterprising students have stepped into the breach and filled the need.
‘The candy removal plan, according to students at Austin [...]

Train Wreck

Not only will big Bill’s new rail transit be expensive and have few passengers. Those who do ride it will be less safe.

How gullible can we be?

Add the Albuquerque Chamber to the list. Looks like this is another bad idea whose time has come. A few years from now remember you heard it here: the Pre-kindergarten expansion of government will not work.

Pre-K: How gullible can we be?

How gullible can we be when it comes to the pre-kindergarten expansion of government? Answer: really gullible (subscription):
“Gov. Bill Richardson on Tuesday released the results of a poll that showed 83 percent of the New Mexico respondents support a voluntary pre-kindergarten program he is backing.”
I wonder how many would support this feel-good, “for the kids” [...]

Perverse Incentives of the Medicaid Match

The federal government wants its Medicaid bed scam money back (subscription):
“The Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services demanded the state return funds it paid last year under a now-disallowed bed tax plan designed to generate $22 million in federal funding.”
We are not going to get sane Medicaid policy until we eliminate the incentive of states [...]

More on “It takes a state…”

Where are the skeptics? I seem to be only one of a few. Mountains of evidence to support government pre-kindergarten? How about the mountains of contrary evidence here, here and here? Are you too much into feel-good rhetoric about the kids to check out documented skepticsm? How gullible can we be? Our government doesn’t [...]

Does it Take a State to Raise a Child?

Apparently the legislative monopoly in Santa Fe thinks so. Now they want to foist pre-kindergarten on the beleaguered NM taxpayer. Here is what I think:
1)It won’t work.
a) This is interest group politics. Self-interested government bureaucrats and “advocacy groups” gain – it is in their financial interest to implement pre-K. As a result their studies are [...]

Getting Around the High Cost of Government Controlled Health Care

Here (subscription required) is a fascinating story of successful efforts to control the high health care costs fostered by government price controls, mandates and tax subsidies for third party payments. With this innovation doctors do not get punished financially for spending more time with patients; and they spend no time doing government required paperwork. The [...]

#1 in Aid from Washington!

New Mexico is first! Receiving the most aid has not helped, though, since we are near the bottom in everything good. Is this more evidence that foreign aid really doesn’t work?

Making Medicaid Work

It was good to see CHRIS EDWARDS and ALAN REYNOLDS calling for block grants to states for Medicaid in today’s WSJ:
“We think that Congress should go beyond the administration’s limited cuts by enacting an overall federal budget cap to force trade-offs between defense, entitlements and domestic discretionary spending. And Congress needs to start moving major [...]

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