exclusively a matter for state and local governments . (For a summary of abortion policy before Roe , see: “ Before Roe v. Wade , Abortion Had Always Been a State and by the city council or by Congress. But it is better that there be variety and competition among jurisdictions rather than a situation in which policies are all
and John Early to write The Myth of American Inequality: How Government Biases Policy Debate . The book was released this month by Rowman and Littlefield a better job in higher income areas. Both are in need of systemic reform and more competition, in other words, the government seems to work against the poor in the
an entrenched feature of capitalism, yet businesses must discriminate to remain competitive. Failing to reward the right competencies will result in failure. Therefore, discrimination is a legitimate policy that only becomes objectionable when done for nonmarket reasons. Even the racialist theory of capitalism, it continues to wield enormous clout in policy circles. However, the sharpest evidence against the theory of racial
denizens of the Beltway. While the US can boast many great achievements—from its competitive federalist system to its robust entrepreneurial culture —other facets of Organization (NATO) as brain dead. Growing divergence in terms of the foreign policy priorities that France and the US—the country that dominates the alliance—hold floated the idea of a rapprochement with Russia. All told, wokism and US foreign policy should not be viewed as isolated phenomena but rather inextricably linked
socialist; to his mind, the hopes for a free and prosperous society lay in a truly competitive private-enterprise system. Above all, Flynn always distrusted any close of progressive reform and instead created a federal Leviathan based on the cynical policy of “tax and tax, spend and spend, elect and elect” (the formula which has historian at Stanford, had already published the defense of Roosevelt’s prowar policy that has now become standard. Casually conceding the whole revisionist
when then treasury secretary Paul O’Neill objected to the Bush administration’s policy of guns, butter, and tax cuts he was told by the vice president, Dick Cheney, the government in every crisis, whining for handouts or protection from the very competition that has made this system so productive. I saw Texas ranchers, hit by
planning and privilege. High tariffs shielded powerful corporations from foreign competition. Since the federal government enjoyed a large budget surplus in 1884, He sternly promised that he would protect the laborer and the farmer against any policy that would lead to a “shrinkage in the purchasing power of the dollar for a
on the state of the economy and place blame where it belongs, on the monetary policies of the Federal Reserve. Yet, strangely, their recommendations stop short of from government). So, from Wall Street’s perspective, there were the problems of competition from nonnational banks, industry’s preference for thrift over debt, and
war against French Canada. If Americans, during the Seven Years’ War, pursued a policy of trading with the enemy, the British bitterly alienated the other countries and England’s overriding maritime interest was to destroy the highly efficient and competitive Dutch shipping. Very early in his reign, James I claimed ownership of the was the highly efficient Dutch shipping, and fellow sufferers from British policy were Spain, Portugal, Sweden, Russia, Naples, Tuscany, Genoa, and Sardinia.
hostility with the Arab and Indian merchants, for these Muslim traders feared the competition afforded by the new sea route. The new route was expected to avoid the of the previous purely religious abstinence. This intensification of mercantilist policy was accelerated by the intervention of England into the dynastic wars on the
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