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| More Stimulus, or Faster Growth? Richard A. Posner Feb 27 2010, 11:29 AM ET Tweet More Email Print My post of February 8, which argued that the only way out of our fiscal dilemma is more rapid economic growth, and proposed some possibly politically feasible public measures for accelerating growth, elicited a number of interesting comments.One comment noted that repeal of the drug laws,christian louboutin outlet, which was one of my suggestions, is not realistic, and that is true. What I should have said is that,jimmy choo outlet, as a start toward decriminalization, state and federal law enforcement authorities should devote fewer resources to investigating and prosecuting drug crimes, and should propose less severe sentences to judges; these measures could reduce the prison population considerably, perhaps without provoking too great a public outcry. They would also operate as a social experiment: we would learn what the consequences are--the balance of costs and benefits--of scaling down the "war on drugs."Another comment makes the excellent |
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