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Scott Alexander: astralcodexten.substack.com/p/links-for-march item #18

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line-item_veto_in_the_United_States#Wisconsin

www.brendan-nyhan.com/blog/2008/04/i-love-state-po.html

"I always wondered how stupid and trollish a use of the line-item veto executives could get away with. Wisconsin fulfills my wildest dreams with the "digit veto", where, in response to a bill setting a budget of $25 million, a governor successfully vetoed the number "2", leaving the budget with $5 million. In 1975, they followed up with the rare "reverse veto", in a governor vetoed the word "not" from the phrase "not less than 50%". And the Frankenstein veto (Wisconsin, 2005) is [...]" "Gov. James E. Doyle, a Democrat, scratched out some 700 words from a section of the 2005 budget bill, leaving behind just 20 words that, when stitched back together, moved $427 million from the transportation fund to education." "Voters limited the veto once before, in 1990, rejecting what critics then called the “Vanna White veto,” allowing a governor to cross out letters inside words to make whole new words."

Интересно, мы и раньше жили в такой реальности, или кто-то её недавно так отредактировал?

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