Monday, June 04, 2007

Good job, Eliot

The Governor of New York embraces the free market:

N.Y. Ends Ticket Scalping Caps

ALBANY, N.Y. -- Open your wallets, Yankees fans. New York scalpers can now legally sell tickets to the highest bidder without fear of getting pinched.

Gov. Eliot Spitzer signed a measure officially ending the limits on how much brokers add to the face price.

Now that we have set the market free for Yankee tickets, how about other, less crucial commodities, like housing and kidneys?