Commentary

America’s Economic Civil War

By Troy Senik
Thursday, September 16 2010

If the past few years have taught us anything, it’s that the inconvenient truths of the free market have a way of puncturing political pretension. Take, for example, these data from a 2009 report by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC):

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