Like yesterday’s fashions, old policies never die, they simply return with new accessories. So it is with Rand Paul’s proposal to create “economic freedom zones” for Detroit and other depressed cities — a recycled version of the “enterprise zones” of 1980s.

But if past is prelude, this idea won’t work — not because it doesn’t make sense, but because Washington won’t allow a sensible version to pass its august chambers.

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