Squandering the Surplus on the National Debt

Conservatives and Republicans are ecstatic about the bond buy-back and debt pay-down policy now in effect. This is misplaced joy and a political miscalculation. Every dollar that we use to pay down the debt has an opportunity cost. Each dollar could be used in a...

No Cure for Generational Pain

If you thought the public uproar over George W. Bush’s use of an expletive last [month] was big, imagine the national horror he would have provoked if he had said he was against offering any new Medicare benefits for the elderly. Al Gore wants to throw $250...

A is non-A: Gore’s Deceptive Telephone Tax

VICE-PRESIDENT AL GORE, aided and abetted by Jay Rockefeller, D-W.V., and Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, fought for and succeeded in amending the Telecommunications Act of 1996 such that a universal services fund was created to subsidize telecommunications services for...

The Truth About Social Security

Americans, it would seem, have far more attachment to the Social Security system than they have knowledge of it. I say this from observing how easy it is for Democratic politicians to make Americans anxious that Republicans are out to harm the system. That Social...

The Politics of Education

What amazes some media pundits is that Gov. George W. Bush has seized issues that have long belonged to the Democrats, such as education and Social Security. What should be more amazing is that education was ever the Democrats’ issue in the first place. The...