Oh Dear

Whenever my inner Republican convinces me that we need to shift power from the federal government to the states, I run across something like this. A state representative in Louisiana is proposing a watered-down version of a Nazi-style eugenics program. From The Times-Picayune:

Worried that welfare costs are rising as the number of taxpayers declines, state Rep. John LaBruzzo, R-Metairie, said Tuesday he is studying a plan to pay poor women $1,000 to have their Fallopian tubes tied. . . .

It also could include tax incentives for college-educated, higher-income people to have more children, he said.

Especially frightening are the dozens (perhaps hundreds) of commenters who think that Rep. LaBruzzo—who, incidentally, serves the district that once elected David Duke—is on the right track.