by Thomas Sowell | Apr 18, 2005 | POLITICS
Where can you make $2,000 a day, with no real effort? In San Mateo County, California. Before you start packing your bags to head there, you should know that the average homeowner in San Mateo County saw the value of his property increase by $2,000 a day over the past... by David C. John | Apr 16, 2005 | POLITICS
Some organized labor groups recently decided that the retirement security of their members was less important than their own short-term political goals. The AFL-CIO and some of its member unions declared that investment managers for their retirement funds should be... by Daniel J Mitchell | Apr 15, 2005 | POLITICS
If anything’s likely to boost support for the flat tax, it’s the annual nightmare of tax season. Imagine junking all the paperwork the current system requires and replacing it with two simple postcard-sized forms that tax income only once and at one low... by Richard E. Ralston | Apr 14, 2005 | Healthcare
As you raise a pen to sign your tax return this year, you will undoubtedly regret that the United States Treasury is taking so much of your income. You should also ask why so much of the income you have left is spent on health care and health insurance. The two... by Ludwig Von Mises | Apr 14, 2005 | Economics, POLITICS
There are extensive tracts of land, comparable to those in Europe, which are sparsely settled. The United States of America and the British dominions of Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and so on, are less heavily populated, in comparison with their... by Thomas Sowell | Apr 13, 2005 | Education, POLITICS
Every year about this time, high school students get letters of admission — or rejection — from colleges around the country. The saddest part of this process is not their rejections but the assumption by some students that they were rejected because they... by Walter Williams | Apr 12, 2005 | POLITICS
Hundreds of readers responded to last week’s column about airport security. These were letters from Americans who fit no terrorist profile — airline pilots, mothers traveling with children, disabled people, elderly and other law-abiding Americans —... by Don Luskin | Apr 11, 2005 | POLITICS, Social Security
On Tuesday, President Bush had the most bizarre cabinet meeting any president is ever going to have. It was a meeting with an actual cabinet. A filing cabinet. A filing cabinet in Parkersburg, W. Va., to be precise. Strange? Yes. But then again this is a very... by Brian Riedl | Apr 10, 2005 | POLITICS
The April 15 tax deadline provides taxpayers the opportunity to examine how their elected officials will spend their hard-earned tax dollars. Washington will spend $22,039 per household in 2005 — the highest inflation-adjusted total since World War II, and...
