The Free Market 13, no. 1 (January 1995) What program consumes the largest share of the federal budget? What program is predicted to go belly-up in short order by every knowledgeable observer? What program are the leaders of both parties committing to protect until it bankrupts the country and destroys what’s left of intergenerational amity?
The Free Market 13, no. 2 (February 1995) When anti-socialist, post-Soviet reformers of the Baltic states sought to reign in government power, they looked to solve the money problem first. Moscow held unlimited power to flood their economies with cheap money, and to fund itself as an imperial power lording it over other peoples. That had to end
The Free Market 13, no. 3 (March 1995) How can business comply with the Americans With Disabilities Act? It can’t. The ADA has created an inescapable trap for companies, a bottomless pit for liberty and property, and an unremitting excuse for harassment and control. John Casey, writing in the University of Puget Sound Law Review (Winter 1994),
The Free Market 13, no. 4 (April 1995) After two years of pretending to be for free trade, the Clinton administration, backed by the Republican leadership in Congress, finally ‘fessed up. In their dealings with China and Mexico, they shredded two centuries of economic wisdom, repudiated every principle of sensible economic relations, and kicked
The Free Market 13, no. 5 (May 1995) Steve Stockman, among the best of Washington’s freshmen Congressmen, holds a daily prayer session that staff members attend voluntarily. Last year, nobody could have stopped it. But thanks to the “Contract With America,” Congress now has to comply with the 1964 Civil Rights Act. The ACLU says Stockman may be
The Free Market 13, no. 6 (June 1995) A poll in March reported that most people would prefer “deficit reduction” to “tax cuts.” Polls and the media lie all the time, but this one refutes itself. If people really wanted to be taxed, they would pay up without being threatened by audits, fines, special agents, and jail terms. No need to speculate
The Free Market 13, no. 7 (July 1995) To understand the House Republicans’ budget “revolution,” pay careful attention to this number: $55 billion. That’s the amount federal spending will increase next year. A year later, according to their plan, the budget ticks up another $38.1 billion. It goes up an average of $45 billion every year
The Free Market 13, no. 8 (August 1995) We have the makings of a world central bank, thanks to the government officials from industrialized countries (the G-7) who met at Halifax, Nova Scotia, in June. U.S. Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin, as usual, got just what he wanted. The officials didn’t call it a world central bank, a creepy term that
The Free Market 13, no. 9 (September 1995) Left-liberals hate the idea, but the prosperity of everyone in a market economy depends in good part on the rich. The capital they have earned and saved generates investments and creates jobs. Their savings keep interest rates low. Their actions are philanthropic in every sense. In their professions,
The Free Market 13, no. 10 (October 1995) From Left and Right, capitalism is condemned for all the cultural failings of the modern world—everything from mindless TV to dirty books to slatternly art to trashy movies to debasing music. It’s an extension of the liberal habit of blaming a system for what are actually the failings of individuals.
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