In committee, people advocating the bill were given the entire morning session to speak and an hour of the afternoon session. Pulling at heartstrings and stacking the deck are bad enough, but the people backing the bond proposal have also been resorting to the most absurd substantive arguments in their efforts to get people to jump on the bond bandwagon. The state spending will not 'spur increases' in economic activity, but simply reduce economic activity elsewhere. We will never know what businesses do not get started or what jobs do not get created because of the resources absorbed by this proposed bond issue. George Leef is the director of the Pope Center for Higher Education Policy.
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