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The Enterprise Zone as a Political Animal

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  • Suart M. Butler

    (National Center for Neighborhood Enterprise)

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Recently, a libertarian journal published a hard-hitting, if predict- able, broadside of ideological purity aimed at the enterprise zone concept. All the usual arguments were there. If economic freedom is so marvelous, why ration it to a few inner-city zones? Why should a firm in the South Bronx get a tax break that a firm in Dallas cannot receive? Creating a few fiefdoms where free enterprise rules, thun- dered the author, is about as moral as it would have been to combat slavery in the Old South by establishing a dozen slave-free cities. Moreover, he continued, the political process will ensure that the enterprise zones will be so weak and corrupt that they will not even work. So we will end up with an unsound test that will be written offas proofthat free enterprise cannot operate in the inner cities...

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  • Suart M. Butler, 1982. "The Enterprise Zone as a Political Animal," Cato Journal, Cato Journal, Cato Institute, vol. 2(2), pages 373-390, Fall.
  • Handle: RePEc:cto:journl:v:2:y:1982:i:2:p:373-390
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    Keywords

    enterprise zone; libertarian; free markets;
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    • R00 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General - - - General
    • Z0 - Other Special Topics - - General

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