Miscellaneous Links

1.  California’s insurance regulations have forced WellPoint to increase its premiums.  As expected, the politicians are using the company as a scapegoat.  More here.

2.  A superintendent in Rhode Island has confronted unionized teachers by firing an entire school’s staff.

3.  Tyler Cowen makes the case for a VAT.  Generally good ideas, given the (bad) options among [...]

California's Curse

Chris sends my way this article on how too much government has been slowly sucking the blood out of California.  I wonder if California suffers from a kind of resource curse.  Normally, the resource curse is used to explain why countries with an abundance of natural resources have underperforming economies and corrupt governance.  In California’s [...]