
One suspects that special interests – the defenders of CON laws, the education establishment, the AHSAA – will prove less accommodating than Kris Kringle. But then, serious policy reform was never supposed to be easy. It requires not the magic of Christmas morning, but the harder work of persuasion, legislation, and sustained political will.
Four centuries ago, England jettisoned restraints on free trade and allowed markets, not monopolies, to regulate the sale of products.