Should people pay more taxes or should more people pay taxes?
Liberals and Democrats usually opt for the former while conservatives and Republicans generally prefer the latter. Libertarians not only don’t take sides, they reject both propositions.
While campaigning for president, ...
Restaurant: Impossible is a popular show on the Food Network. I don’t watch much television. Not only do I have more writing projects in the works than I have time for, but the political shows on CNN, MSNBC, and ...
The largest expenditure of the federal government is Social Security. According to the most recent annual report of the Social Security Board of Trustees, in 2011 $725 billion in Social Security benefits were paid to 55 million Americans, plus ...
Not without some controversy, the Democrats and Republicans have issued their new party platforms for 2012.
It was predictable, in the case of the Republicans, and surprising, in the case of the Democrats, that “civil liberties” are mentioned ...
Flamboyant, controversial, and extremely popular, Louisiana politician Huey P. Long died 77 years ago this week. Many of his proposals, however, are alive and well today in both major parties.
The seventh of nine children in a deeply religious home, ...
Republicans are upset with Barack Obama — again. This time it is about welfare. Not the constitutionality and legitimacy of federal welfare programs, but their structure and requirements. No one should think for a minute that Republicans are opposed ...
Since the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare became the Department of Education and the Department of Health and Human Services in 1979, the term “welfare” has fallen into disuse. “Income security,” “entitlement,” or “public assistance programs” are now ...
The six-member Board of Trustees of Social Security has released its 72nd annual report on the state of Social Security: “The 2012 Annual Report of the Board of Trustees of the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance and ...
The two recent high-profile and highly deadly shootings in the United States have been the occasion of much dialogue about “gun control.”
Liberals, predictably, have generally called for more and stricter gun-control laws. Conservatives, to their credit, have generally argued ...
Second only to their salary, all employees love and depend on their fringe benefits.
Fringe benefits can take the form of paid time-off for breaks, vacations, jury duty, personal reasons, maternity leave, or illness. They can be in the form ...
