Big Government

Why does it always have to be California? New York? Massachusetts?

From Imperialism and Social Classes by Joseph Schumpeter, translated by Heinz Norden (Meridian Books, 1955) pp. 50-52

Root's low tax, small-government message falls flat when he repeatedly gushes over George Bush when in fact Bush is presiding over the largest expansion of government since LBJ.

Jeff Tucker’s cold medicine post got me thinking.

I’ve never been a privacy freak. A tax freak, yes.

The path for progress here, as in every aspect of economics and civilization, lies with privatization, the elimination of restrictions and welfare, and freedom itself.

As I pointed out in “The Kelo Backlash Begins,” Alabama was the first stat

No wonder, then, that our economic problems center in government enterprises. Government ownership breeds insoluble conflicts, inevitable inefficiency, and breakdown of living standards. Private ownership brings peace, mutual harmony, great efficiency, and notable improvements in standards of living.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper took the histor

More than three years ago, George Bush unleashed the dogs of war on Iraq, perhaps hoping that he would take his place among the “great”