You’ve heard that a task tends to expand to fill the allotted time. The same is true of budgets and spending: a project expands to fill the resources allotted to it, and it is easy from that point to say, “if only we had more resources.”
Month: July 2024
Coolidge’s Silent Recipe for Success: Less Federal Government
The response to anything that doesn’t function optimally has too often been more government, regardless of level and, overwhelmingly since the New Deal, to the benefit of politicians’ electoral prospects.
A Lesson on Tariffs and Free Lunches From the American Revolution
The Townshend Acts of 1767 imposed these indirect taxes on imports to the American colonies, including glass, paint, lead, paper, and tea.
The colonists weren’t fooled. They knew these tariffs were another attempt by Parliament to raise revenue without their consent and exert control over the colonies. They knew who paid these duties.
Ohio Libertarian Party files thousands of signatures to regain state recognition
Ohio Libertarians turned in more than 88,000 petition signatures, including signatures from all 88 counties, to Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose’s office to regain their status as a recognized minor party, state Libertarian Party Chair Dustin Nanna said.