Economic Policies Scoreboard – Right vs. Left in the Midwest

Evidence and common sense should matter more in our overheated political debates. The lesson from the upper Midwest is that rigid anti-tax dogma fails to deliver a convincing optimistic vision that widens economic opportunity and security. The excesses of liberalism may lurk, but Minnesota is building a modern progressivism that plows a hopeful path.

By LAWRENCE R. JACOBS

Full Story: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/24/opinion/sunday/right-vs-left-in-the-midwest.html?_r=0

(Many thanks to Alex Taft for sharing this)