Taxing the Living and the Dead
The all-out attempt in the media to scare us away from tax cuts was epitomized by a Newsweek cover with the caption: “Bush’s $1.6 trillion gamble.” In other words, it is a gamble to let people keep their own money, but apparently it is safe to put...Supreme Court Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg Pokes a Cheap Shot at Justice
While giving a talk in far-off Australia on February 1st, U. S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg may have thought it was safe to take a cheap shot at a fellow American back home. Nor was she restrained by the fact that what she said was a lie. Back in 1997,...Tax Cuts, Lock Boxes, and Other Magic Words of Politics
In this modern scientific age, we no longer believe in magic words that can transform a prince into a frog, or vice versa. But there are still magic words that can cause incredible transformations. For example, there are words that can transform the most big-spending...The Debt for Slavery–and for Freedom
The demand for slavery reparations got a good airing last weekend at a National Reparations Convention held in Chicago. A formal plan for compensating the descendants of American slaves has yet to be drafted, the Chicago Tribune reported, but among the proposals...Free Speech and Campaign Contributions
To the majority, the pragmatic goal of “avoiding the appearance of corruption” is more important than the First Amendment. One wonders if the limit of this line of non-thinking is that only individuals speaking on soap boxes ultimately have protected speech.