HARRISBURG PATRIOT-NEWS Op–Ed: …Instead of adopting simple straightforward solutions to problems, American politicians often reach for complicated “kludges.” Teles defines a kludge as a policy that “builds upon, rather than supersedes, the policies that came before it” resulting in a workaround that is “substantially more complicated than the problem it is trying to solve dictates.”
One would be hard-pressed to find a better example of a kludge than Tom Corbett’s new plan to reform Pennsylvania’s Prohibition-era alcohol market regulations.
The substantive problem lawmakers need to address is pretty straightforward: how do we maximize freedom for adults to responsibly enjoy alcoholic beverages, while minimizing the public harms caused by problem drinkers?… (more)
