All Posts Tagged With: "Congress"

Congress has Caused Severe Damage to Economy, Now Gets a Pay Raise.

“A crumbling economy, more than 2 million constituents who have lost their jobs this year, and congressional demands of CEOs to work for free did not convince lawmakers to freeze their own pay.” Read the rest of the article here.

19Dec2008 | | 0 comments | Continued

Bankruptcy Doesn't Equal Death

Good article on the more honorable option of bankruptcy for the failed auto companies in the WSJ today by Freeman columnist Don Boudreaux:Bankruptcy Doesn’t Equal Death

11Dec2008 | | 0 comments | Continued

Stealing for Union Bosses

Charles Baird is a professor of economics emeritus at California State University at East Bay. H. L. Mencken opined that “Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.” The November 2006 congressional elections are an excellent example of Mencken’s proposition. The attempts by the 110th Congress to steal property and other [...]

1Mar2008 | | 1 comment | Continued

Congressional Generosity

Every now and then we get a glimpse into what government officials really think about our rights to life, liberty, and property. The U.S. Justice Department recently provided such a glimpse in a controversial tax case, Murphy v. IRS. How revealing it is! Did you know that if the government abstains from taxing all your [...]

1Apr2007 | | 0 comments | Continued

Only Congress Can Declare War

The Bush administration has been looking at other potential military targets almost since the war in Afghanistan started. But should the President decide he wants to expand the war, he should get legislative approval. After September 11 Congress authorized President Bush to retaliate against any “nations, organization, or persons” he determined to be involved in [...]

1Oct2002 | | 3 comments | Continued

Ironic Triangle

“No man’s life, liberty or property are safe while the legislature is in session.” -Unidentified New York Surrogate Court judge, 1866 “President Bush has strongly hinted that he will sign any bill that emerges from Congress.” -New York Times, July 17, 2002 Did you hear the one about the congressional committee that grilled the businessman [...]

1Oct2002 | | 0 comments | Continued

Anything to Declare?

“The Congress shall have Power To . . . declare War. . . .”—U.S. Constitution, Article I, Section 8 That brief phrase seems to have vanished from the national memory in the wake of the atrocities of September 11. If the terrorists really intended to assault the American tradition of freedom under law, score one [...]

1Jan2002 | | 0 comments | Continued

Capital Letters

Constitutional Question To the Editor: Concerning David N. Mayer’s article in the July issue of The Freeman, yes, “Monica’s War” (as broadcaster Paul Harvey labeled it) against Yugoslavia was “immoral,” but as to whether it was “unconstitutional” requires clarification. In Mayer’s article, I find no mention of Article VI, paragraph 2, of the U.S. Constitution, [...]

1Oct1999 | | 0 comments | Continued

Congressional Lost Opportunities

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. Although Republicans retain the control of Congress that they won in 1994, they have done little good with their power. President Bill [...]

1May1999 | | 2 comments | Continued

America’s Permanent Criminal Class

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. Dan Rostenkowski is on the comeback trail, Although convicted of and jailed for misusing his office, the former Democratic chairman of the [...]

1Jul1998 | | 1 comment | Continued

A Number, Not a Name: Big Brother by Stealth

Claire Wolfe is a writer in Tacoma, Washington. © Claire Wolfe, 1998. When Representative Dan Schaefer of Colorado held a consumer protection seminar in October 1997, he thought he was going to educate constituents about guarding their privacy against con artists. Instead, it was Schaefer who got an education. “My concern with privacy,” snapped the [...]

1May1998 | | 1 comment | Continued

Rolling Back the Imperial Congress

Ralph R. Reiland is Associate Professor of Economics at Robert Morris College and coowner of Amel’s Restaurant in Pittsburgh. A top priority in the new Congress was to approve legislation that requires members of Congress to obey the same laws that they pass for the rest of us. No longer will the private sector be [...]

1May1995 | | 0 comments | Continued

Executive Incentive

Mr. Greenewalt is President of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. This is an excerpt from his statement of November 9. 1955, to the Sub-Committee on Tax Policy of the Joint Committee on the Economic Report, As our country has developed and matured, we have become increasingly dependent on an active and dynamic [...]

1Mar1956 | | 0 comments | Continued
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