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ROGER KIMBALL: The age of the IOU, or chickens/roost, and ?anarchy literally.? ?And here?s a?

By Glenn Reynolds

ROGER KIMBALL: The age of the IOU, or chickens/roost, and ?anarchy literally.? “And here?s a policy suggestion that I offer free and for nothing. If New York offers its citizens IOUs instead cash, citizens should do the same come April. After wading through the pages of gibberish that our legislators have thoughtfully provided under the rubric of your tax returns, they should enter the amount owed, sign on the dotted line, and enclose an IOU instead of a check. If an irresponsible and fiscally incontinent state can hold on to your money (and you should never forget that it is your money), then you are justified in practicing a little self-defense and treating the state with a little of the contempt with which it treats you. If five or ten or a hundred people did it, it wouldn?t make much difference. What if five or ten thousand people did?”

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on June 12, 2010 (boomark / email).