Writing in the Lost Angeles Times, two economists analyze the causes of the current slump and try to place blame. Is there a villain, the headline asks? One writer points at the ADA.

Stephen Landsburg, professor at the University of Rochester:

Our assigned topic for today is, “What’s wrong with this economy?” My answer is, the same things that are always wrong with it: bloated government, a badly designed tax system and an excess of regulation.

Addressing those fundamental problems would do far more good than shuffling a bunch of checks around. If you really think the economy needs a jump-start, let’s try suspending the Americans with Disabilities Act for a year.

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Jason Furman, senior fellow and director of the Hamilton Project at the Brookings Institution:

We can debate whether the economy is slipping into recession or about to rebound. We can debate whether the best tools are for the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates or Congress and the president to apply fiscal stimulus. And we can debate the most effective forms of fiscal stimulus.

But to argue that the downturn could be solved by temporarily permitting discrimination against people with disabilities is just daft.

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