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Jul 18, 2011
A reasonable reading of the following 34 brief essays in American Experiment’s newest symposium—What Governmental Services and Benefits Are You Personally Willing to Give Up?—suggests that more Americans than generally assumed may be seriously willing to sacrifice when it comes to major entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicare. In the interest of balancing the nation’s skewed books, the columns similarly suggest that more people than routinely thought may be willing to forgo various exemptions and other tax breaks, including near-sacred deductions on home mortgage payments.
Oct 9, 2008
As you perhaps have memorized by now, two weeks ago, in response to our nation’s financial emergency, I invited think tank and other colleagues from around Minnesota and the nation to take on the question: “What’s a free marketeer to think?” What follows is installment Number Seven of the remarkably well-received series: three new columns, bringing the running total to 26.
Oct 9, 2008
Reviewing the economic carnage of the last few months, where socialism has again been summoned to the rescue of what passes for capitalism, a committed free marketeer would have to say that we ought not have allowed government to entice and force people to alter their behavior in a way likely to promote this kind of calamity.
