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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 | ContinuedNonessential Government
Mr. Bandow, this month’s guest editor, is a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute and the author of The Politics of Envy: Statism as Theology (Transaction). 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 [...]
1Feb1996 | Doug Bandow | 0 comments | Continued-
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