Archive for Raphael G. Kazmann
Book Review: This Land Is Our Land: How to End the War on Private Property by Congressman Richard Pombo and Joseph Farah
St. Martin’s Press • 1996 • 224 pages • $22.95 Professor Kazmann lives in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. This timely book deals with an important subject: property rights. After two short introductory chapters that review the history of property rights and the place of property rights as described in the Constitution, Richard Pombo and Joseph Farah [...]
1Jan1997 | Raphael G. Kazmann | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Minimum Wage Law
Professor Kazmann lives in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The minimum wage law is based on the assumption that some minimum hourly rate of pay should be legislated so that people will have a minimum income to support themselves and their families. The law makes it illegal for an employer to pay an hourly rate lower than [...]
1Jun1995 | Raphael G. Kazmann | 1 comment | ContinuedEating the Seed Corn
Mr. Kazmann lives in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. One of the most telling and widely used arguments made by politicians seeking office is that, if elected, their policy will create jobs. The implication is that governmental actions can create jobs in the private tax-paying sector, not tax-eating jobs in the public sector. Bitter experience has taught [...]
1Aug1994 | Raphael G. Kazmann | 0 comments | Continued-
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