The case against farm welfare. If you don't mind sweat, dirt, or the smell of manure, this is a great time to be a farmer. Incomes are up, land values are high, and global demand is growing. Oh, and if you're one of the lucky farmers, there's a bonus: a tap on the federal treasury. Farm subsidies are an oddity in a competitive, capitalist economy. In what other business can you expect continuing ... MORESteve Chapman: Fertilizing Farms With Tax Dollars
The case against farm welfare. If you don't mind sweat, dirt, or the smell of manure, this is a great time to be a farmer. Incomes are up, land values are high, and global demand is growing. Oh, and if you're one of the lucky farmers, there's a bonus: a tap on the federal treasury. Farm subsidies are an oddity in a competitive, capitalist economy. In what other business can you expect continuing ... MOREPeter Suderman: Debt Wrong
Obama bets the government can save itself. “From our first days as a nation, we have put our faith in free markets and free enterprise as the engine of America’s wealth and prosperity,” President Barack Obama declared in a speech at George Washington University yesterday. “More than citizens of any other country, we are rugged individualists, a self-reliant people with a healthy ... MOREThomas Sowell: Taxes and Politics
Someone once said that taxes are the price we pay for civilization. That may have been true when he said it, but today taxes are mostly the price we pay so that politicians can play Santa Claus and get reelected. That's not the worst of it. We may think of taxes as just a source of government revenue. But tax rates are a big political statement on the left, whether they bring in any revenue or not. ... MOREJacob Sullum: Complex Inferiority
This year, for the first time in more than a decade, I ventured outside the reassuring realm of TurboTax while preparing my return, looking for a late-arriving form at the IRS website. It's scary out there. Staring at bewildering forms and instructions, I flashed back to the days when I did my taxes by hand, based on my uncertain understanding of what was required, and hoped for the best— ... MOREWalter E Williams: Eat The Rich
I've often said that I wish there were some humane way to get rid of the rich. If you asked why, I'd answer that getting rid of the rich would save us from distraction by leftist hustlers promoting the politics of envy. Not having the rich to fret over might enable us to better focus our energies on what's in the best interest of the 99.99 percent of the rest of us. Let's look at some facts about the rich ... MOREFCC Internet Regulation: Not So Fast
by John White. In the House, HJ37, the resolution to disapprove the FCC action, has been approved on a floor vote of 238 to 174. Last December, under cover of the holidays and the spectacle of the lame duck Congress, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) defied a federal court and enacted an internet regulatory takeover. In answer, the House began moving House Joint Resolution 37 through ... MORE Doug Bandow: Tax Freedom Day -- Not
Taxes cost Americans more than food, shelter and clothing combined. Americans finally finish working for the federal government on April 12 this year. That's three days later than last year, but still a couple weeks earlier than Tax Freedom Day in 2006 and 2007, April 24. The record in both peace and war was May 1 in 2000. Had Al Gore defeated George W. Bush in that year, TFD probably would have ... MORE
Chicago School Nannies Ban Home-Packed Lunches
Students of Little Village Academy in Chicago are banned from eating packed lunches brought from home and must eat cafeteria food unless they have a medical excuse. The policy has resulted in chanting, uneaten food dropped in bins and angry parents. The school says it is trying to protect students from their unhealthy food choices but pupils have been stirring up chants at lunchtime of: ‘We should bring our own lunch' ... MORE
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