Trump Has Repeatedly Flirted with Ending the EPA. He Absolutely Should
The $4-trillion-per-year federal government works incessantly against the private sector. Likely no wing is more pernicious than the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). […]
Tag: International Affairs
New York’s Government Needs to (Re)Learn: You Can’t Spend Your Way to Prosperity
During the passage of the inanity that was the Democrats’ 2009 $878 billion “Stimulus,” Vice President Joe Biden bizarrely uttered in its […]
Want a Shortage of Something? Put the Government in Charge of Its Production
The late, inordinately great man and economist Milton Friedman once rightly observed “If you put the federal government in charge of the […]
The Al Sharpton of Power Companies Set to Get a New York State Bailout
The Reverend Al Sharpton is famous. What he should be is notorious. He has many, many life lowlights. The one that pertains […]
Government Ignores Human Nature – and Warps the World with its Ignorance
Socialism doesn’t work because it tries to root out human nature. Capitalism works because it harnesses it. We are capitalists, conservatives and […]
Here’s the Way to Finally End the Farm Bill
We less government types have loathed the Farm Bill – since there was a Farm Bill. Because we loathe government inanity – […]
The Road to Hell is Paved with Regulations. And Taxes. Take Note, New York
We are nigh all familiar with the maxim: “The road to hell is paved with good intentions.” I also like it in […]
New York State Is Perfecting Its Taxpayer Repellent
Government at all levels has been for a century-plus grossly over-involved in, well, everything. For this particular exercise, let us look at […]
Global Cigarette Smuggling Is So Profitable – The UN Is Getting In On It
No one breaks the law of unintended consequences – more than government. Governments everywhere decades ago launched the War on Tobacco. Which […]
Bill Murray Reports: It’s Farm Bill Time. Again.
One of our greater American films – is Groundhog Day. Where Bill Murray’s character – television weatherman Phil – is caught in […]