Dave Boaz needs education in libertarianism

I had high hopes that the 73-year-old newly elected governor, with no more dreams of higher office, would aggressively confront California's out-of-control spending and special-interest deals. Brown watcher Tim Cavanaugh of Reason says that any hope that Brown would actually take on the spending interests, many of them public employee unions that helped him win office again, ended with his sweetheart contract for the prison guards union. But I'm still hopeful. Governor Brown knows his state is in debt up to its eyeballs, he knows where the money goes, and he knows that the special pleaders are still encircling the state capitol. And he's still skeptical about the "inexorable transfer of authority . . . to the state" and the idea that "every human problem deserves a law." That's a good basis for a new era of limits on power.  David Boaz

Jerry Brown, libertarian? No, he is just opportunistic, career politician. The philosophical stuff is a cover. I note that just the other day he was pining for a big bailout from DC. Remember that Brown and Davis are big fans of market manipulation, even at the cost of tens of billions to the CA economy. Also notice that much of the 12% unemployment, 3 points above the average is likely due to his Dills Act.

If Dave Boaz wants to test Brown's libertarian credentials, then write a post discussing the lack of Senate democracy that big states suffer. See if Brown responds.