of the community of nations, by encouraging its 15-year experiment in capitalist economic policies. This has resulted in a historic economic boom of double-digit annual growth, unprecedented freedom and prosperity for huge elements of the population, and
thing about American or European history, constitutional law, Western literature, economics, or political philosophy. Thanks to the proliferation of elective-based action (1964-1985), and polylogism (1987-present). It was a staple of American economic life, from the founding until quite recently, that each generation would be it did. Academic standards began to unravel as early as the mid-1930s, with the growth of centralized, tax-funded higher education, and the democratization of elite
focusing on “flat” instead of “low” is another example of a diversion. There’s no economic virtue in flatness: after all, the hated Social Security tax is as flat as 1998.” Zzzz. With all the problems in the country —nearly all of them traceable to growth of government—how has this petty idea become a central part of the Republican
No longer do people look to the government as the great problem solver, economic planner, social unifier, or cultural czar. The government is more likely to the state as the state prods others to give unto you. Even more curious is the growth of national socialist ideology on the right, particularly in the pages of the
path to true reform, that is, cutting benefits across the board. What’s left are economic and moral outrages. Tax increases are old hat, of course, and we’ve come to wealth from the private sector to pay off the liabilities merely reduces overall growth and prosperity. Older Americans complain they’ve been taxed their whole lives,
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