March, 2018 Complaining about the government is a long-time tradition in the United States. And a good one. Like all large organizations, government organizations are inherently unmanageable. They will inevitably become bloated and inefficient without the constant vigilance of the citizens they are supposed to serve. But, for all its faults and inefficiencies, a complex…
February 2018 There are many who think that the supply side theory being advanced by a large number of conservative Republicans is basically a fraud. The theory, which is attributed to something the economist Arthur Laffer wrote on a napkin says that by cutting tax rates, the economy will be so stimulated that tax revenues…
January 2018 In much of the country, including Florida where many of us go in winter, counties are the basic unit of government. Police, fire, schools (and several other functions) are the responsibility of elected county officials. That is not the case in Massachusetts. After years of mismanagement, the citizens of Massachusetts abolished government in…
December, 2017 I’ve heard a diverse group of reasons for the slow growth rate of our GDP and the stagnation of wages. Many Democrats want to increase GDP growth by raising the minimum wage and investing heavily in infrastructure, while most Republicans have been arguing that we need to reduce tax rates (again) and severely…
When my father turned 65 in 1975 he went on Medicare and that gave him the courage to leave my mother who had taken care of him and supported him through years of mental illness and inability to work. We thought she would be happy to see him go, but she was frightened of being…