Mr. Mel Burstein This is Me

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1. 1. August2000SyracusePresentation

   fiscalpolicy.org/syracuseAug20 - [Cached]

   Published on: 8/2/2000   Last Visited: 9/11/2006

   In an influential 1995 essay, two of the Minneapolis Fed's senior officers - Mel Burstein, its general counsel, and Art Rolnick, its Director of Research - went a step further than Goodman, arguing that the escalating competition among the states is really worse than a zero-sum game because it reduces the amount of money available to do the things that government must do if our economy is to grow and prosper.
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   As the title of their 1995 essay, "Congress Should End the Economic War Among the States," indicates, Burstein and Rolnick believe that Congress should exercise its powers under the commerce clause to save the states and cities from themselves.

2. 2. August2000SyracusePresentation

   www.fiscalpolicy.org/syracuseA - [Cached]

   Published on: 1/1/2000   Last Visited: 9/11/2007

   In an influential 1995 essay, two of the Minneapolis Fed's senior officers - Mel Burstein, its general counsel, and Art Rolnick, its Director of Research - went a step further than Goodman, arguing that the escalating competition among the states is really worse than a zero-sum game because it reduces the amount of money available to do the things that government must do if our economy is to grow and prosper.
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   As the title of their 1995 essay, "Congress Should End the Economic War Among the States," indicates, Burstein and Rolnick believe that Congress should exercise its powers under the commerce clause to save the states and cities from themselves.

3. 3. GIBSON FOR SENATE - Press Release on Corporate Subsidies 10/28/99

   www.jamesgibson.org/issues/Pre - [Cached]

   Published on: 10/28/1999   Last Visited: 5/31/2008

   A considerable amount of research on corporate subsidies has been conducted by Art Rolnick, Senior Vice President and Director of Research at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, and Mel Burstein, former executive vice president and general counsel of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis (see http://woodrow.mpls.frb.fed.us/pubs/ar/ar1994.html
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   Mr. Rolnick and Mr. Burstein proposed a solution to the problem of states and cities competing against each other through preferential subsidies.
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   If elected, I will propose federal legislation, possibly along the lines of Mr. Rolnick and Mr. Burstein's proposal, that will restrict the ability of states and cities to offer preferential subsidies, thus ending this counter-productive economic bidding war.