In other words, it is wrong to claim that America’s fiscal problems are because of falling tax revenue. Washington is going to get more of our money over the next three decades. More money in nominal dollars. More money in inflation-adjusted dollars. More money as a share of GDP. The...
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those whodeny individual rights cannot claimto be defenders of minorities. —Ayn Rand 118 One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroachingupon their just rights. —James K. Polk 111 In the ...
…The seizure was part of a practice known as civil asset forfeiture, where law enforcement officers have the right to lay claim to property they argue was used in the commission of certain crimes. …the law seems to incentivize bad behavior from otherwise good police officers.“To me, this...
In Russia. The earliest form of censorship in Russia, dating back to the 16th century, was religious censorship; its functions were assumed by the Synod in 1721. A decree of 1783, which allowed private individuals to establish printing houses, also introduced prior censorship: manuscripts could ...
Although the World Government would claim victory, the island was left devastated by tremendous collateral damage. During the next two years, it was decided to relocate Marine Headquarters to the New World to increase the Marines' presence in the most dangerous sea; a new Headquarters was built ...
Bom, P., & Ligthart, J. (2014). What have we learned from three decades of research on the productivity of public capital? Journal of Economic Surveys, 28, 889–916. Article Google Scholar Bouza, S., & Turnovsky, S. J. (2012). The distributional consequences of foreign transfers: ...
(unnatural, commerce, corporate, corporation, made-up fiction, and legal fiction corporation) name that represents your government trust account or reserve account that has millions of dollars waiting for you to claim, that was assigned to you at birth with your birth certificate and social ...
(whether legitimate or imagined), violence is often clothed in religion, both as a mobilization tactic, and so each side can claim that God is on their side. ISIS is no more about Islam than the Troubles in Ireland were about the religious faith of Catholics or Protestants, or the KKK ...
Clubhouse politics has been much maligned…, but at least party regulars could claim credit for an organization that, while skimming its share of graft, also rammed through landmark legislation when the public and political interest coincided… ...
Critics claim that China leverages its foreign aid to gain preferential access to Africa’s abundant natural resources. Existing empirical research is hampered by the lack of official and authoritative data on China’s development aid and by the endogeneity problem. This article examines the ...