Does that fall under the category of corporate welfare?
Olsen: Our focus is really on state policy. Patterson: Her response is good and quick before Clint and I get started. (Group laughter.) We have our opinions, obviously, and I don’t even know for sure what the others are. It probably borders on it, but it’s not something we’d get involved with as an institute. Bolick: One thing that really makes our litigation center somewhat unique is there’s a huge difference between the federal courts and the state courts. The taxpayers cannot challenge that (bailout) deal in federal court, but state taxpayers here in Arizona and elsewhere do have the ability to go to court to challenge abuses of taxpayer funds, and we intend to make a cottage industry out of that. Olsen: We have suits not just against the city of Phoenix, but right now (against) Mesa, Tempe, the Arizona Corporation Commission, gone after some regulations by the Arizona Department of Education, so it’s a broad effort to rein in government whenever and wherever it oversteps it constit
