All Posts Tagged With: "inefficiency"
A Free-Market Energy Vision
Energy is the master resource. Without it other resources could not be produced or consumed. Even energy requires energy: There would not be usable oil, gas, or coal without the energy to manufacture and power the requisite tools and machinery. Nor would there be wind turbines or solar panels, which are monuments to embedded fossil-fuel [...]
29Jun2010 | Robert L. Bradley Jr. | 5 comments | ContinuedHow Much Do the Public Schools Waste?
Governments in the United States currently spend about 4 percent of gross domestic product on “public” schools.1 Those schools also employ about 4 percent of the nation’s workforce. Although few will admit it, public education is clearly an anachronistic, socialist institution, with all of the characteristics of a typical Soviet enterprise. As such, one would [...]
1Jan2003 | John T. Wenders | 1 comment | ContinuedI, Government
I am government–the institution known the world over to all who pay taxes, get subsidies, and face regulation. Coercion is both my vocation and my avocation; it is in my very nature to compel others to do that which they otherwise would not do. My nature should then be of great concern to you as [...]
1Oct2002 | D.W. MacKenzie | 1 comment | ContinuedTime for the Mail Monopoly to Go
Scott Esposito is a recent graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, earning degrees in economics and political science. In 1775 the Continental Congress named Benjamin Franklin head of the newly created federal post office with the hopes that it would help bind together the emergent confederation.1 Although the confederation failed, the post office didn’t, [...]
1Feb2002 | Scott Esposito | 10 comments | ContinuedThe Poverty of Regulation
Ronald Reagan famously asked voters during the 1980 presidential campaign, “Are you better off than you were four years ago?” A similar test can be applied to government regulation: Has it left us safer and healthier than we would have been without it? Just like the voters in 1980, we can answer that question with [...]
1Dec1999 | Michael J. Catanzaro | 3 comments | Continued-
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