Big Government

When the state passes a law, even if trivial, it backs that law by the threat of force. Sometimes it actually uses it. Ray Haynes explains. 

Will the free market underproduce roads? Not a chance. Chris Westley explains how government intervention causes traffic congestion. 

If power-hungry government officials and misanthropic environmentalists would get out of the way, California could avoid energy shortages this summer. George Reisman explains. 

As more Americans become aware that anthropogenic global warming is a hoax, the people who make their income from scaring us are increasing their efforts.

In choosing whether tax cuts should be big or small, will the U.S. follow the path of Germany's Ludwig Erhard or of the socialists in Britain? Gregory Bresiger explains what's at issue.

One of the modern hero-myths the State has cultivated about itself is that government vaccination programs drastically reduced some common communicable diseases in the twentieth century. For decades, the government has required certain vaccinations for entry into schools, and most parents have passively submitted to the inoculation of their children. Now, in response to increasing evidence that vaccines may not be the boon to our health that has been supposed, opposition to mandatory vaccination programs is building.

Religious social services soon may be getting a new ally in their efforts to rescue people from the clutches of poverty, drug addiction and other personal problems: the federal government. The hook is "compassionate conservatism," and as the linchpin of President Bush's domestic policy, stand-and-deliver time has come early. But his plan, if fully realized, should succeed mainly in underscoring the folly of state-sponsored private charity of any type.

Government intervention designed to stop the spread of disease is making matters worse, by destroying property and institutionalizing a moral hazard. Christopher Westley explains.

Bush's tax cut proposal is way too modest. Here's James Ostrowski's plan for a $21 trillion tax cut. It would not only get the economy going; it would restore a free market.

There was a time when the word reform described a process of renewal, of change, and of taking new steps towards correcting a problem. With the rise of campaign finance reform, that is no longer the case.