I'm a big Planet Money fan, and remember this episode. As I listened, it occurred to me that I really wished we had a non-partisan, uniform way to measure "exp

I'm a big Planet Money fan, and remember this episode. As I listened, it occurred to me that I really wished we had a non-partisan, uniform way to measure "experiments" like this over time. Agree on measures of success (GDP, per capita income post-tax, employment, education stats, etc.), visualize them over time, and run 50 parallel experiments. http://usafacts.org/ http://usafacts.org/ comes close, though it doesn't show state-level details. Also, one could argue it's not non-partisan behind the scenes (or that non-partisan is impossible). I understand that might be a bit naive, but in general we could be doing much better at gathering and visualizing the data that are used to make policy decisions. Give me cold, hard numbers and pretty graphs instead of our current system of hotheads yelling that I'm a socialist if I believe in government spending or hate poor people if I believe in tax cuts.