[IP] Birth of the Digital New Deal: An Inventory of High-Tech Pork-Barrel Spending

[Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>]

>From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
>Subject: Birth of the Digital New Deal: An Inventory of High-Tech
>Pork-Barrel Spending
>Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 14:37:37 -0800
>MIME-Version: 1.0
>
>Cato Policy Analysis No. 457    October 28, 2002
>
>Birth of the Digital New Deal
>An Inventory of High-Tech Pork-Barrel Spending
>
>by Adam Thierer, Clyde Wayne Crews Jr and Thomas Pearson
>
>Executive Summary
>
>Congressional spending sprees are nothing new in Washington. But now,
>new spending initiatives are cropping up that cover
>telecommunications services, the Internet, and the high technology
>sector in general. Although federal legislative activity on this
>front is not a formally unified effort, the combined effect is
>tantamount to the creation of what might be called a "Digital New
>Deal." Just as policymakers proposed a litany of New Deal programs
>and spending initiatives during the Great Depression era, lawmakers
>today are devising many new federal programs aimed at solving the
>supposed emergencies or disasters that will befall the
>telecommunications industry without government assistance. The recent
>troubles of the dot-com and telecommunications sectors have only
>added fuel to the fire of interventionism.
>
>...
>
><http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-457es.html>

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