All Posts Tagged With: "incrementalism"
The Snare of Incremental Heath Care “Reform”
Opponents of (more) government control of health care and health insurance are breathing a sigh of relief after Tuesday’s upset senatorial election in Massachusetts. But now that the celebrations are subsiding, I feel compelled to warn that the most perilous days may lie ahead.
22Jan2010 | Sheldon Richman | 9 comments | ContinuedLifestyle Nazi Update
We are not doing the same kind of things with obesity that we have done with smoking and alcohol as far as the government is concerned. It’s got to be like smoking, a constant drumbeat.” That’s former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop, appearing on CNN, January 11, 2000, calling for the nation’s lifestyle Nazis to attack fat people as they attacked smokers.
1Jul2001 | Walter E. Williams | 2 comments | ContinuedA Constitutional Counterrevolution
Charlotte Twight is a professor of economics at Boise State University. She is the author of Dependent on D.C.: The Rise of Federal Control Over the Lives of Ordinary Americans. Given America’s carefully crafted constitutional restrictions on central government power, how is it that intrusive federal powers over the lives of ordinary Americans took root [...]
1Oct2000 | Charlotte A. Twight | 0 comments | ContinuedIt Can’t Happen Here?
The magician’s most potent power is misdirection: by making his audience think that it should look over there, he’s able to get away with some rather simple trickery over here. Using that mundane power, magicians have been able to pull off some amazing feats. So have people in government. Houdini himself might envy their facility [...]
1Aug2000 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | Continued-
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