Imagine a society with no income tax. I’ve been ruminating this and gathering data for a while, and then BINGO, there it was—an analysis of the current state of our economy laid out in a May 26, 2010 USA Today article by Dennis Cauchon, “Private Pay Shrinks to Historic Low as Gov’t Payouts Rise.” The …
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Ben Franklin’s Prophesy Fulfilled
A two thousand page health care bill passed through the US Congress without thorough examination. Nancy Pelosi publicly stated that in order for us (read: congress and the public) to know what’s in the bill, it first had to be passed. What is she smoking? Does she believe the American public is naïve? A 2300-page …
RIP Common Sense
Philip K. Howard’s early ‘90s book “The Death of Common Sense” sites numerous examples of irrational governmental behavior beginning with the story of Mother Theresa’s attempted conversion of a burned out building in the Bronx to a shelter for homeless men. New York City halted the rehab just before it began because the Missionaries of …
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