All Posts Tagged With: "farm subsidies"
Can 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 | ContinuedThe Freedom Revolution
What lifts this book above the pack is extensive use of Armey’s Axioms—witty though incisive truisms on public policy, from a man in a position to know. The author is the House Majority Leader, an architect of the “Contract with America,” a champion of the flat tax, and a former economics professor at the University [...]
1Feb1996 | William H. Peterson | 0 comments | ContinuedJust Say No to Farm Subsidies
Congress is busy tying itself in knots of anguish over the future of federal farm subsidies. Many lawmakers are unwilling to stand up to the farm lobby and do what’s right. But exactly 100 years ago, one Secretary of Agriculture had the courage to do just that. His name was J. Sterling Morton, and he served in the second administration of President Grover Cleveland.
1Sep1995 | Lawrence W. Reed | 4 comments | ContinuedPlunder by Proxy
Mr. Read is President of the Foundation for Economic Education. They who employ force by proxy, are as much responsible for that force as though they employed it themselves. Herbert Spencer, Social Statics, 1865 The popularity of Robin Hood derives from the fact that he robbed the rich to aid the poor. Let it [...]
1Sep1956 | Leonard E. Read | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Farm Problem
This article, under the title “The Wrong Track?” was first printed in The Prairie Farmer, February 19, 1955, A County Agent fears that the farmers’ acceptance of subsidies will be used by government as proof that it has thereby acquired the right to control their lands Washington is again ringing with debate about the farm [...]
1May1955 | M. H. Banner | 0 comments | Continued-
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