All Posts Tagged With: "interstate commerce"
The Mandated Health Insurance Outrage
The most outrageous aspect of health care “reform” is the insurance mandate: Every individual will have to buy government-defined comprehensive medical coverage (if it isn’t provided by his employer)—or be fined. You must buy it. Who do these politicians think they are? For those who wonder by what authority the government can make us buy [...]
23Feb2010 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | ContinuedTelecom Regulations Don’t Create Competitive Markets
The author would like to thank Diane Katz, director of science, environment, and technology policy at the Mackinac Center, for her assistance in the preparation of this column. Few of us would understand the jargon employed in a recent ruling overturning telecommunications regulations issued by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). But it’s not necessary to [...]
1May2004 | Lawrence W. Reed | 1 comment | ContinuedPlum Deal
At 78, my mother has decided to embark on a new career. She’s going to become a plum grower. She’s not actually going to grow any plums, but she’s going to be a “plum grower” nonetheless, and I really couldn’t be more proud. To display such entrepreneurial spirit at her age is truly admirable. Of [...]
1Jul2002 | P. Gardner Goldsmith | 0 comments | ContinuedProhibition Hasn’t Ended Yet
It’s been nearly seven decades since the national war against alcohol during Prohibition (1920-33) came to an end with the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment. But 30 states, including mine (Michigan), still prosecute a kind of mini-Prohibition of their own: They forbid consumers from buying wine from other states unless the products are shipped through [...]
1Jul2001 | Lawrence W. Reed | 0 comments | ContinuedConstitutional Protection of Economic Liberty
Norman Barry, a contributing editor of Ideas on Liberty, is professor of social and political theory at the University of Buckingham in the UK. He is the author of An Introduction to Modern Political Theory (St. Martin’s Press). The Supreme Court has been deliberately neglectful of traditional American economic liberties. With the exception of some [...]
1Nov2000 | Norman Barry | 0 comments | ContinuedConstitutional Intentions
A question frequently arises in disputes about how to interpret the U.S. Constitution: What was the intention of those who framed the document? This question contains an invalid assumption. It assumes that those who drafted the Constitution at the 1787 convention and those involved in the subsequent debates were of one mind and intent. In [...]
1Jun2000 | Wendy McElroy | 2 comments | ContinuedAid to Owners of Dependent Enterprises
There is widespread support for ending welfare, and for nudging, or pushing, welfare recipients into self-sufficiency through employment. Congress even voted to end Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), though President Clinton and the Republican Congress have since backpedaled. However, there has been no similar attempt to eliminate what might be called Aid to [...]
1Nov1997 | Charles W. Baird | 0 comments | Continued-
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