All Posts Tagged With: "government handouts"

What’s Wrong with Reparations for Slavery

There has been much debate recently about reparations for slavery. According to its proponents, the federal government should award Americans of African descent financial damages solely because slavery, as an institution, existed in the United States from the founding until almost a century later. Three principal arguments are offered: (1) The legacy of slavery has [...]

30Jun2010 | Stefan Spath | 16 comments | Continued

Congress Pushes for Mortgage Aid

“House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank (D-Mass.) on Monday signed on to a proposal by Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) that would channel $3 billion from the federal Troubled Assets Relief Program toward mortgage relief for jobless Americans. The measure would designate another $1 billion for a program that gives grants to state and local [...]

8Dec2009 | Mike Van Winkle | 0 comments | Continued

I Lost My Job, Can I Keep My Principles?

Mark Reboul is a computer programmer and musician who lives in New York City. I accidentally discovered a great party trick: Get laid off from your job, tell someone about it, listen to them decry capitalism, wait for them to observe that you’re entitled to collect unemployment, and then tell them you’d really rather not. [...]

1Apr1999 | Mark Reboul | 0 comments | Continued

Nonessential Government

You might not have noticed, but the federal government closed down a while back. The sky didn’t fall. The world didn’t end. People didn’t die in the streets. In fact, it was difficult to detect any difference outside the Washington Beltway before and during the two shutdowns. Unfortunately, nothing has changed since then. The same [...]

1Jan1997 | Doug Bandow | 5 comments | Continued

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