We seem to be diluting ourselves down to the lowest common denominator.
4 posted on 01/05/2005 9:27:22 AM PST by JustAnotherSavage
(Government spends what government receives plus as much as it can get away with-Milton Friedman)
Not quite - as per the WSJ piece, the US has basically been standing still, and there has been a small backward drift due to things like Sarbanes-Oxley.
The real news is that other places are liberalizing and catching up.