All Posts Tagged With: "sport utility vehicles"
The Scapegoat Utility Vehicle
Sam Kazman is general counsel of the Competitive Enterprise Institute (www.cei.org), a Washington-based free-market advocacy organization. First sin, then treason, and finally, reckless idiocy. For owners of sports utility vehicles (SUVs), that pretty much sums up the last holiday season. They went into Thanksgiving under fire from the “What Would Jesus Drive?” campaign. Then the [...]
1Jul2003 | Sam Kazman | 0 comments | ContinuedDon’t Bash SUVs
The world is full of people who can’t mind their own business and who think they know what’s best for the rest of us. If only we’d be smart enough to put them in charge, they figure, the world would be a better, more rationally planned place. Things would run more smoothly and efficiently and nobody’s greed would be satisfied at anyone else’s expense. The world’s scarce resources would be husbanded for the benefit of all.
1Oct2001 | Lawrence W. Reed | 1 comment | Continued-
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