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The EPA is holding a video contest in which you, taxpayer, are invited to produce a piece of propaga?

By Radley Balko

The EPA is holding a video contest in which you, taxpayer, are invited to produce a piece of propaganda touting the glory of regulation. The winner gets $2,500 taxpayer dollars. It takes a peculiarly bureaucratic sort of mendacity to dream up the idea of using taxpayer money to promote a contest in which taxpayers are asked to make videos celebrating the way their tax dollars are being used to make their lives more expensive.

My colleagues at Reason.tv have produced three entries. Here’s one of them:

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on May 18, 2010 (boomark / email).