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about serving the public--as distinct from private vendors--is this element of constant competition, combined with the fact that bureaucrats gain their income from taxes which can often be raised with impunity by those who hire them. (Read more...) Discuss this Article (17 messages)
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new president. He should back off already. (Read more...) Discuss this Article (2 messages)
pro bono work. And this mostly consists of broadcasting programs misleadingly labeled "public affairs." (I say this because none of these programs is actually about what matters to everyone, to the public, but only to one or another special interest group and, mostly to bureaucrats and their groupies.) (Read more...) Discuss this Article (26 messages)
risks taking a false step. First, few people know why others champion a position on some controversial topic, although sometimes one can guess fairly well. Still, it is strictly speaking bad form to raise the issue of motives. (Read more...) Discuss this Article (32 messages)
health care guaranteed? Of course, there are other services that are treated as if people had a basic right to them, such as primary and secondary education. But then there are many services people want, even need, that few would regard as due people as a guarantee. (Read more...) Discuss this Article (10 messages)
better or for worse, and refuses to permit the imposition of plans on them even by the most wise and smart among us. (Read more...) Discuss this Article (41 messages)
identified as, you should have guessed it, freedom of thought! (Read more...) Discuss this Article (3 messages)
policies of the Obama administration's so far as fascist! In it I said "Fascism is a political system in which a country is lead by a charismatic leader who has full power to order things about because he (or she) is taken to know best." (Read more...) Discuss this Article (3 messages)
For good reason—openness is a loose idea; a door can be open to a great variety of degrees. But a free society isn't so flexible. You are free if you are the master of your life, if you own it, if you have your right to it fully respected and protected. Otherwise you aren't free and the society in which you live isn't a free one. Ask any former slave whether freedom means not having others intrude on one’s life or whether it means that others intrude only, say, 40 percent. (Read more...) Discuss this Article (6 messages)
well is that people aren't forced to respond to stimuli--they can turn away, refuting the underlying assumptions of what it takes to get them out there to buy stuff! (Read more...) Discuss this Article (0 messages)
leader who has full power to order things about because he (or she) is taken to know best. Obviously this is a mythical sort of regime, with most of its essential features impossible to come by. No such leader exists, period, but there are many who pretend that they are fully qualified. (Read more...) Discuss this Article (7 messages)
executives whose companies didn't manage to be successful, it may appear to be unjust to pay as per the terms of the contract but it isn't. As the saying goes, a promise is a promise. (Read more...) Discuss this Article (39 messages)
they aren't violating anyone's rights? (Read more...) Discuss this Article (1 message)
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that surrounded me despite having hardly any of it myself. (Read more...) Discuss this Article (10 messages)
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the Internet but also on radio and TV. One place where I check things out fairly regularly is PBS (Public Broadcasting Service) TV's The News Hour with Jim Lehrer, mainly because I am curious how a program funded to a considerable extent from money taken in taxes handles controversial topics. (Read more...) Discuss this Article (21 messages)
former's--policy vis-a-vis the fiscal mess is that the remedies proposed all impose massive taxation on future generations, people who haven't the ghost of a chance to speak up for themselves. (Read more...) Discuss this Article (10 messages)
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feudal age when it was the rent landowners--mostly monarchs and lords--collected from people, I have met with much resistance. It is mostly based on the widespread belief that without taxation the functions of government could not be paid for. (Read more...) Discuss this Article (13 messages)
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the public interest, the public good, the public welfare and similar allusions to deed and policies that supposedly advance us all. (Read more...) Discuss this Article (9 messages)
is ancient and so complex that hardly anyone commenting makes sense of them, it is very tough to judge. That’s how it is with me and the current upheaval between Israel and Hamas. (Read more...) Discuss this Article (17 messages)
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