All Posts Tagged With: "Bill Clinton"

Bad Investment

Deroy Murdock is a co-founder of Third Millennium and a member of the Cato Institute’s Advisory Board on Social Security Privatization. A shorter version of this article appeared in The American Enterprise. In his State of the Union address, President Clinton proposed to invest some $700 billion of the Social Security Trust Fund in corporate [...]

1Sep1999 | | 1 comment | Continued

Immoral, Unconstitutional War

David Mayer is professor of law and history at Capital University in Columbus, Ohio. He is the author of The Constitutional Thought of Thomas Jefferson (University of Virginia Press). The United States has no vital interests at stake in Yugoslavia; the conflict there is the kind of European war that Americans should avoid if we [...]

1Jul1999 | | 1 comment | Continued

Storm Trooping to Equality

Politicians have long enjoyed promising to deliver equality to the American people. In a January speech, President Clinton announced that he is seeking a budget increase to hire more federal agents to penalize more companies for alleged inequalities in their wage and salary structures. Clinton declared, “We have an opportunity now, and an obligation, to [...]

1Jul1999 | | 0 comments | Continued

Clinton versus Cleveland and Coolidge on Taxes

In a post-State of the Union speech in Buffalo, New York, on January 20, 1999, President William Jefferson Clinton was asked why Americans shouldn’t get a tax cut since the federal budget is in surplus and the share of personal income taken by the federal government is at a post-World War II high. Is this [...]

1Jul1999 | | 0 comments | Continued

Must I Not Be Believed?

Calvin Beisner is associate professor of interdisciplinary studies at Covenant College in Lookout Mountain, Georgia, and is completing a Ph.D. in late-seventeenth-century British history and political thought. It was mid-November 1688. King James II of England, heir to his father’s and grandfather’s beliefs in royal absolutism, was desperate. Nobles and gentry of his kingdom had [...]

1May1999 | | 0 comments | Continued

Think Tank Wars and the Minimum Wage

True to form, Senator Edward Kennedy is pushing legislation to hike the minimum wage 41 percent, to $7.25 per hour by September 2002. President Bill Clinton has naturally jumped on the bandwagon, though he only wants to go to $6.15 an hour. He declared before last November’s election: “We are fighting hard for the dignity of living wage [sic] in the face of partisanship that refused us last time.”

1Apr1999 | | 0 comments | Continued

Inscrutable Follies

“Don’t bother to examine a folly—ask yourself what it accomplishes.” —Ayn Rand, The FountainheadPardon if I sound like a character out of Dostoyevsky, but is it a sign I am mad when I am unable to understand what should be a simple newspaper article about taxing and spending in Washington? A New York Times article [...]

1Apr1999 | | 1 comment | Continued

So-Called Property Rights?

Remember William Weld? He was the Massachusetts governor (and presumed presidential wannabe), who resigned so President Clinton could appoint him to dispense advice as ambassador to Mexico. Those plans were derailed by Senator Jesse Helms, so now he makes money in Boston perhaps while planning his political future. Weld wrote an op-ed in the New [...]

1Apr1999 | | 0 comments | Continued

The Bully that Acts Like a Hero

Harold Jones teaches at Mercer University’s Eugene W. Stetson School of Business and Economics in Macon, Georgia. In 1995 President Clinton established what he called “Operation Restore Trust,” a Health and Human Services initiative aimed at wiping out fraud and abuse in the health-care industry. According to the administration, only terrorism surpassed health-care fraud as [...]

1Mar1999 | | 0 comments | Continued

Public Failure, Private Response

Doug Bandow, a nationally syndicated columnist, is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and the author and editor of several books, including Tripwire: Korea and U.S. Foreign Policy in a Changed World. President Bill Clinton has called for a “national crusade” on education. Naturally, that means spending more money: he would have Washington hire [...]

1Jan1999 | | 0 comments | Continued

Pragmatic Collectivism

Do we individualists exaggerate when we condemn our ideological opponents as collectivists? That word isn’t merely a term of abuse. It is a spot-on label for the political philosophy of those who would give government a prominent economic and social role. The philosophy holds that society (or some other group) is superior to the expendable [...]

1Jan1999 | | 0 comments | Continued

No Credit Due

The pundits are bewildered over the public’s contradictory response to President Clinton during his recent troubles. Most Americans have a low opinion of his character. Yet at least 60 percent of those polled think he’s doing a terrific job and should not resign. How can this be? Assuming the polling results are accurate, it may [...]

1Dec1998 | | 0 comments | Continued

The Constitution’s New Defenders

All the talk of cigars, blue dresses, and other paraphernalia of modern presidential amours has drawn national attention away from how the prospect of impeaching Bill Clinton is inspiring a sea-change in constitutional theory. Many big-government advocates now champion strict constitutional construction. The President’s defenders are probably at this very moment poring over Robert Bork’s [...]

1Dec1998 | | 0 comments | Continued

Another Minimum-Wage Clash

Richard McKenzie teaches economics in the Graduate School of Management at the University of California, Irvine. It happened again. Republicans and Democrats recently locked political horns over President Clinton’s proposed one-dollar increase in the minimum wage. The political partisans repeated past claims with self-righteous fervor, but once again were off base on the consequences of [...]

1Nov1998 | | 1 comment | Continued

Guess Who Paved the Road to Socialized Medicine?

Nearly one year ago, Congress passed and President Clinton signed into law the largest expansion of government health care since 1965, when Medicaid and Medicare were created. This new federally funded program, titled “State Children’s Health Insurance Program” (SCHIP), gives states the authority to enlarge government health insurance programs for children, including medical services in [...]

1Jul1998 | | 4 comments | Continued

Whose Rules? Whose Law?

Jesse Walker is the Warren Brookes Fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. The virtue of the rule of law is that it requires the government, like the rest of us, to follow rules. The trouble with the rule of law is that it’s the government that ends up enforcing those rules. Often as not, it [...]

1Jul1998 | | 0 comments | Continued

Potomac Principles

Doug Bandow, a nationally syndicated columnist, is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and the author and editor of several books, including Tripwire: Korea and U.S. Foreign Policy in a Changed World. Potomac Principles: Institutional Immortality, Washington Style “Don’t count on your budget surplus before the check clears.” That should be this year’s motto [...]

1Jun1998 | | 0 comments | Continued
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