All Posts Tagged With: "the rich"
More Income Redistribution Will End the Great Recession?
With increasingly widespread recognition of the failure of Keynesian economic policies, all the Progressives are left with are claims whose acceptance requires a suspension of one’s logical faculties. An excellent example of this is a September 2, 2010, New York Times op-ed by Robert Reich, the Clinton administration secretary of labor and professor of public [...]
24Nov2010 | Ivan Pongracic Jr. | 4 comments | ContinuedBook Reviews – June 2003
Dependent on D.C.: The Rise of Federal Control Over the Lives of Ordinary Americans by Charlotte Twight St. Martin’s Press/Palgrave • 2002 • 512 pages • $26.95 hardcover; $17.95 paperback Reviewed by James Bovard Charlotte Twight has written an excellent book to help Americans understand how the federal government is insidiously seizing control of their lives, year by year, edict [...]
1Jun2003 | FEE Admin | 0 comments | ContinuedAmerica Is Headed Toward Plutocracy?
In a New York Times op-ed (June 14, 2002), columnist Paul Krugman lamented the increasing inequality between rich and poor, and expressed concern that this will lead to an erosion of democracy. He needn’t worry himself (more important, he needn’t worry his readers), since his argument depends on misleading arguments about wealth disparities and philosophical [...]
1Oct2002 | Aeon J. Skoble | 3 comments | ContinuedThe Secret Hate in Hate Crimes
Contributing editor Lowell Ponte is a national radio talk show host and a columnist for David Horowitz’s FrontPageMag.com. A variety of recent laws and policies, such as university “speech codes,” have been imposed with the proclaimed goal of prohibiting “hate.” They have set forth punishments for acts and crimes motivated by hatred based on a [...]
1Feb2001 | Lowell Ponte | 4 comments | ContinuedCapital Letters
Selective Taxation Worse To the Editor: Lawrence Reed argues against taxation of Internet sales in his recent article “Don’t Tax the Internet” (June 2000). There is an evil worse than excessive taxation: that of selective taxation . . . . Exemption of Internet-originated sales from taxation, while still allowing taxation of phone-originated sales taxes, amounts [...]
1Oct2000 | FEE Admin | 0 comments | ContinuedIn Defense of the Rich
“The substantial canons of the leisure-class scheme of life are a conspicuous waste of time and substance and a withdrawal from the industrial process.” —Thorstein Veblen[1] Ever since Thorstein Veblen wrote The Theory of the Leisure Class in 1899, wealthy Americans have been under assault. Veblen had nothing good to say about the so-called idle [...]
1Jun2000 | Mark Skousen | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Wealthy Hurt the Middle Class?
Bashing the rich just ain’t as easy as it used to be. With the stock market at record levels, unemployment low, and wages rising, most Americans are busy trying to become rich, not brooding over how much others earn. Most of us are better off, so why begrudge those who, through hard work or sheer [...]
1Sep1999 | and W. Michael Cox | 0 comments | ContinuedSuch a Deal!
Let’s keep this among ourselves, but we non-rich folks have a good thing going. Even though we are of modest means, we have a huge staff of servants who perform valuable services for us. The best part is that we don’t even have to pay them. Think back to when the VCR came out almost [...]
1Jul1998 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | Continued-
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