All Posts Tagged With: "corporate welfare"
Take the Rich Off Welfare by Mark Zepezauer and Arthur Naiman
Odonian Press • 1996 • 191 pages • $9.00 Aaron Steelman is staff writer at the Cato Institute. Corporate welfare has become a favorite target of political activists across the ideological spectrum. Free-market groups such as the Competitive Enterprise Institute, Citizens for a Sound Economy, and Americans for Tax Reform have joined forces with Public [...]
1Feb1998 | Aaron Steelman | 0 comments | ContinuedKill Big Business’s Bank
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. The federal government is full of programs designed to benefit one or another special interest. Like the Export-Import Bank. The Bank, which [...]
1Dec1997 | Doug Bandow | 0 comments | ContinuedAid to Owners of Dependent Enterprises
There is widespread support for ending welfare, and for nudging, or pushing, welfare recipients into self-sufficiency through employment. Congress even voted to end Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), though President Clinton and the Republican Congress have since backpedaled. However, there has been no similar attempt to eliminate what might be called Aid to [...]
1Nov1997 | Charles W. Baird | 0 comments | ContinuedTV Taxes
Christmas arrived early for TV broadcasters this year. Way back in March the federal government played Santa Claus. Over a four-day period, from March 31 to April 3, Washington gave away the proverbial store to the nation’s over-the-air television broadcasters. A major step by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)—taken per a Democratic White House and [...]
1Nov1997 | Raymond J. Keating | 2 comments | ContinuedCan the Budget Be Cut?
Mr. Bandow, this month’s guest editor, is a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute and the author of several books, including The Politics of Plunder: Misgovernment in Washington (Transaction). To listen to Washington officials, you’d think cutting the budget was impossible. In their view, every program, no matter how inconsequential, has played a critical role [...]
1Apr1997 | Doug Bandow | 0 comments | ContinuedIncome and the Question of Rights
Dr. Cordato is the Lundy Professor at Campbell University in Buies Creek, North Carolina. On C-SPAN’s Journalist Roundtable program, Victor Kamber, a Democratic Party political consultant, and conservative author David Frum were discussing whether Congress should pass an amendment to the Constitution allowing states to ban flag burning. As an aside, Mr. Kamber said that [...]
1Jan1997 | Roy Cordato | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Road Ahead
An odd breed of business executive regularly appears on the public-policy landscape—the supporter of big government in business. Big government boosters favor not only corporate welfare initiatives, but a host of other interventions, including research and development, education, pork-barrel subsidies, and even expanded social welfare programs. Interestingly, many—but not all—of these statist business executives tend [...]
1Nov1996 | Raymond J. Keating | 0 comments | ContinuedSports Welfare
Doug Bandow is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and a nationally syndicated columnist. He is the author and editor of several books, including The Politics of Envy: Statism as Theology (Transaction). When America was founded there was much debate over the proper role of government. Today that debate continues every time someone proposes [...]
1Jun1996 | Doug Bandow | 2 comments | ContinuedBusiness–Government Collusion
Mr. Banfield is owner of Banfield Analytical Services in Westmont, Illinois. As an adjunct policy analyst for the Heartland Institute, he has testified before the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, The Illinois General Assembly, and a U.S. Republican Hearing on health-care reform. Back when first cutting my teeth on the concepts of free-market economics, I [...]
1Feb1995 | Eric-Charles Banfield | 11 comments | ContinuedPro Sports on the Dole
Baseball is no longer just a game; it’s big business. Such is the conventional wisdom today. And with salaries skyrocketing to the point where now the average major league baseball player earns $1.2 million a year, who could disagree? However, ever since the first professional team, the Cincinnati Red Stockings, was fielded in 1869, baseball [...]
1Feb1995 | Raymond J. Keating | 0 comments | Continued-
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