The misery will continue for New York subway riders, who don’t understand how previous subway reforms have failed. State and city officials concede things will worsen.
“There is no question our subways are in crisis after decades of underinvestment and ...
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Franklin D. Roosevelt was up for reelection in 1940. Toward the end of the election campaign, wanting to reassure the considerable isolationist sentiment, he promised not to send ...
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Unfortunately, the classical-liberal tradition that Carl Schurz represented is almost gone today. The men and women who supported it were consistent opponents of the imperial presidency, no matter ...
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Presidential use of the executive order, along with its relative, the executive agreement, has become the “very definition of tyranny” and an affront to limited government. The ...
The government and the private sector should start spending more to turn the economy around. That’s what a former Obama administration official, speaking to a recent UBS adviser conference, said in making no apologies for the administration’s poor performance ...
Economic history is primed to repeat in the nastiest of ways unless the government stops distorting the price of something we use every day.
Every product, good, or service has a price, which is essential to rational decision-making. We use ...
Americans pay taxes all year round — sales taxes, tolls, investment taxes, user fees, estimated taxes, et cetera. And most of them were paying more on April 15 one way or the other.
That’s because at the tax-filing deadline, a ...
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What is the case for raising the minimum wage? Supporters say it will help the low-paid worker, the teenager or the young person in his 20s, just starting out. They claim that it helps ...
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The minimum wage, a price control as futile as all other government price controls, continues to damage the U.S. economy and much of the world.
But the obscene irony of the minimum-wage law is that ...
“A feeling has been growing for a long time — even before Viet Nam — that the presidency was somehow out of hand. The White House has been building to some kind of smash.”
— George Reedy, former aide ...
