This letter appeared in the Wall Street Journal , December 10, 1998 Bankrupt Socialist Contraption Your Dec. 1 editorial about Social Security (”The GOP Tax Increase”) is, like much of the debate over Social Security, unclear in its assumptions and disingenuous in its conclusion, specifically the idea that raising taxes is not inextricably linked
From Patrick Weinert, The Free Market , September 1998: “Government standards for air quality have not only threatened the health of American citizens, they have actually increased public exposure to pollutants. “Air conditioning provides not just cool air, but cleaner air, as well. The fine particles that the EPA wants to regulate are actually
Not all political leaders around the world enjoy the luxury of conducting foreign bombings when their political prospects at home are sinking. But this a privilege enjoyed by the U.S. President, heading an administration that claims that U.S. militarism is somehow indispensible to world order. Heads of state can usually count on war to excite
Grove City College learned the lesson of federal funding more than twenty years ago. In late 1977, the College refused to sign an Assurance of Compliance form, required by the federal government in the wake of the passage of Title IX of the Civil Rights Act. Even then, the College accepted no direct federal aid. Some Grove City students did
“We have progressively abandoned the freedom in economic affairs without which personal and political freedom has never existed in the past.” (F.A. Hayek, The Road to Serfdom ). Economic thinking today is divided into many schools of thought, such as the following : the Keynesians, the Post- Keynesians, the Rational Expectations School, the
The Washington Post December 22, 1998 No Tears for Clinton NEW YORK—Here on the West Side of Manhattan, on Saturday night, eight hours after the House impeached President Clinton, the citizens around me were crying their eyes out. Yes, this city is a hotbed of Clinton supporters. Alec Baldwin, the actor who blithely suggested on the Conan O’Brien
Here is a news piece from Investor’s Business Daily (Nov. 23, 1998) dealing squarely with one of the most interesting monetary issues of the day. The author quotes some well-known Austrian economists to help sort it all out. Are the vast amounts of U.S. currency held overseas a threat to the U.S. economy? Whether for spending or saving, most
Here’s one for conspiracy theorists. Steven R. Kangas was a sworn enemy of the Austrian School of economics, and furious user of Mises.org. He devoted a section of his “Liberalism Resurgent” website to “debunking” the economics of Mises, Hayek, and Rothbard. His Myths of the Austrian School is available for perusing. His elaborate text is shot
Published in The Orlando Sentinel , November 28, 1998 Taxpayer vouchers allowing students to attend private schools is a bad idea whose time may have come anyway. It’s a bad idea, despite the growing hype for it, for a number of reasons. Mixing public funds in private institutions is never a good idea. A great deal of the mischief done in this
Orlando Sentinel March 18, 1999 If old Karl Marx, the embittered inventor of communism, could return from the grave, he would no doubt be surprised to find that most of the 10 planks of his Communist Manifesto, issued in 1848 in collaboration with Frederick Engels, have been happily adopted or are at least supported by Americans. Let’s look at the
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