By Vicki Alger | Tuesday August 21, 2012 at 3:03 PM PDT | 3 Comments
In Sen. Barry Goldwater’s 1964 campaign ad against big government, the narrator warns a young boy who’s parking his bike at grandma’s house, “Don’t look now young man, but somebody has his hand in your pocket. It’s the hand of big government. It’s taking away about four months pay from what your daddy earns...
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Tags: Budget and Tax Policy, Constitution, Education, Employment, Free Market, Government subsidies, Healthcare, Nanny State, Personal Liberty, Politics, Privatization, Social Security, Taxation, The State
By Mary Theroux | at 12:28 PM PDT | 2 Comments
I shouldn’t have to care. He’s not my doctor. Neither his nor any other politician’s opinion on the matter should have any bearing on or meaning for my life or anyone else’s. I shouldn’t have to care what Mayor Bloomberg thinks about nursing vs. formula for babies. Nor for what Senator Harkin thinks birth...
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Tags: Charity, Civil Society, Family, Healthcare, Law, Liberty, Nanny State, Property Rights, rape, Women
By Robert Higgs | at 12:01 PM PDT | 35 Comments
In 1968, I went to work as a faculty member at the University of Washington. Two years later, I noticed that a large deduction had been made to my monthly pay, and I inquired about it. I discovered that it was my personal contribution to a retirement plan. Because I had no recollection of...
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Tags: American History, Economics, Federal Reserve, Poverty
