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High tax takes, one-shot revenue boosts from privatizing assets, and other non-recurring revenues are inspiring a bipartisan spending binge at the state level. What happens, though, when the cash is spent, revenue is down, and the bills keep coming for universal pre-k, universal health care and other new big-ticket initatives. In sprawling Orlando, you can begin with faith, and end up as an expert in traffic management, waving your arms at drive-by citizens. At least according to this equal parts fascinating and over-the-top National Geographic dispatch. For better or worse, no photos of topless natives. With the goodwill value of brand name disappearing, Jack Shafer thinks the bad financial news for newspaper is good news for journalism. City Journal's Nicole Gelinas asks: Why not sell New Orleans' low-rise townhouse projects to the upwardly aspirational instead of tearing them down to put in subsidized mixed-income towers? "The feds’ impulse to replace such perfectly good housing takes root in the flawed notion that the buildings are the problem with blighted public housing, not the dependent underclass people who live in it."
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