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Theodore Roosevelt, Big-Government Man
Theodore Roosevelt has been known as “the Good Roosevelt,” “the Republican Roosevelt,” and “the conservative Roosevelt,” as distinguished from his fifth cousin Franklin, who’s credited with ushering in modern American big government. Yet promoters of big government have long recognized TR as one of their own. Biographer Frank Freidel wrote that “While at Groton [Franklin [...]
24Feb2010 | Jim Powell | 7 comments | ContinuedWhy the Government Fails to Maintain Anything
As the mad scramble to pass President Obama’s stimulus bill reminded us, politicians love to start new government programs. They gain things they can brag about during their reelection campaigns. But there’s little to be gained by maintaining programs somebody else started. No surprise, then, that in budget battles, maintenance tends to be under-funded. Moreover, [...]
23Sep2009 | Jim Powell | 12 comments | ContinuedSprawl versus Coastal Beauty
Timothy Terrell is an associate professor of economics at Wofford College in South Carolina. “It’s a bad idea to turn the whole future of a region over only to people with money to make.” So says a local college professor, John Lane, in a recent editorial in one of our community newspapers. The article described [...]
1Jun2007 | Timothy Terrell | 0 comments | Continued-
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