"President Bush, setting aside his rhetorical devotion to free markets, signed a farm bill today that will shower billions of dollars in new subsidies on breadbasket states that will help determine control of Congress in November's elections."
                        -- Washington Post, May 14, 2002, page 1

"Congress passed, and yesterday President Bush signed, the Farm Bill, which will provide a reliable safety net for farmers and meets important principles laid out by the president."
                        -- Larry Lindsey, "A Farm Bill Worth Signing," Wall Street Journal
                           May 14, 2002, p. A-18

"Oklahoma has always prided itself on being a law and order state. Now we've got more law and order than we can afford."
                        -- Cal Hobson, president of the State Senate in Oklahoma, which may release some prison inmates to
                           save money, New York Times, December 18, 2002.

Class Links for EC 310

Course Information:

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	Brookings Report on the New True Size of Government
	Horizontal Equity
	Cost of Complying with Federal Income Tax
	Winners and Losers in the Transfer Game
	The Education Shibboleth
	Public Goods and Externalities: The Case of Roads
	The Fault Lines
	Smoke and Errors
	Wartime Prosperity? A Reassessment of the U.S. Economy in the 1940s