All Posts Tagged With: "Gladstone"
The Man Who Didn’t “Grow” In Office
Seven miles north of Escanaba in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula sits a little town with a very big name. More than a hundred years after the death of the town’s namesake it’s unlikely that many of today’s 5,000 residents of Gladstone could tell you much about him. But in the nineteenth century and for a long [...]
1Apr2002 | Lawrence W. Reed | 5 comments | ContinuedLord Acton–Political Power Corrupts
Mr. Powell is editor of Laissez Faire Books and a senior fellow at the Cato Institute. He has written for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, American Heritage, and more than three dozen other publications. Copyright © 1996 by Jim Powell. Few recognized the dangers of political power as clearly as Lord [...]
1Jun1996 | Jim Powell | 2 comments | ContinuedHigh Taxes in Britain
Mr. Heffernan is an economic journalist and director o] the London financial newspaper, City Press. The british, called by Napoleon a nation of shopkeepers, have become a nation of tax payers. The number liable to tax has climbed to a peak of five out of six workers. Over a third of the income of the [...]
1Mar1956 | John Heffernan | 1 comment | Continued-
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