The Real Costs of Federal Mandates
If unemployment and the recession are our principal domestic problems (as television tells us every evening via the network news), then this is no time to place more…
Category: Economy
Americans Are Angry About Taxes — September 1991
Feminist Falsehoods, Follies, and Funding — July 1991
Working at Home is a Growing Movement
Every morning and evening, millions of commuters spend a couple of hours driving bumper to bumper in and out of a crowded city. The only social interaction they…
Look For the Union Label
The 1990 Alabama gubernatorial election may have done to the National Education Association (NEA) what the Bush-Dukakis 1988 election did to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). It…
Comparable Worth Proven a Failure
The evidence is now in. The concept called “Comparable Worth” is as wrongheaded and counterproductive as critics predicted when this feminoid notion emerged in the late 1970s. It…
How to Spend the Peace Dividend
A combination of President Bush’s “read my lips” determination to veto any tax increases plus the shadow of the federal deficit has kept the liberal Democratic Congress from…
Look Who’s Lobbying For Federal Daycare — January 1990
Selling the Brady Plan on TV
Watching the latest MacNeil-Lehrer documentary on Third World debt must leave most listeners wondering what the problem really is. The piece showed many aspects of this issue but…