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... a sweet deal on the backs of taxpayers. For each dollar they put into their pensions, other taxpayers contribute an average of $8.60. Moreover, the pain for the city's taxpayers has been increasing ...
Tuesday, 13 July 2010
... in living memory, falls all over itself in distributing billions of dollars in foreign aid (stripped from American taxpayers of course) all around the world. Reagan, the Republican hero, failed to make ...
Saturday, 24 April 2010
... buy a little less than 12 billion gallons of gasoline in a typical month. With gas prices now about a dollar per gallon higher than they were a year ago, that leaves consumers with $12 billion less to ...
Tuesday, 13 April 2010
... took me to border patrol headquarters, put me in a cell, held me for three hours, then let me out and told me I was going to be fined $500 dollars," Roy said. He's planning on fighting the fine, but ...
Thursday, 18 March 2010
... the situation and warned of the consequences: Deposit institutions are holding over a trillion dollars of excess reserves (that is, over 15 times what they are required to hold given their deposits). ...
Monday, 22 February 2010
... is no such thing as a "little" inflation. As long as prices keep rising year after year, the value of the dollar declines and people -- particularly those on fixed incomes -- are seriously hurt. What ...
Friday, 19 February 2010
One of the great things about being free, is that you get to keep the product of your labor. Or, to put it another way, you get to keep what you earn. Too bad it doesn’t work that way in the United States ...
Monday, 11 January 2010
... recounts the story of one publisher willing to pay only $100 dollars for an 800 word essay. As bad as that is, in my experience lately, that’s a pretty good rate. Many publishers won’t pay anything at ...
Friday, 08 January 2010
...  The second thing government will do will be to increase a hidden tax — it will increase the money supply, thereby reducing the value of the dollars people hold. This is a great scheme for a debtor nation. ...
Sunday, 15 November 2009
... in other words the money supply was rapidly increasing. When the money supply increases, the value of each dollar becomes worth less over time. This, however, has an interesting effect on several factors. ...
Wednesday, 09 September 2009
11. What To Do About the Economy
(Archive/Opinion)
... he warned: Last year, household debt alone rose by more than one trillion dollars. The federal government itself has been adding more than two billion every day. The Federal Reserve System, together with ...
Sunday, 22 February 2009
12. Global Warming Skepticism
(Archive/Features)
... really alarming? Indeed, the success of climate alarmism can be counted in the increased federal spending on climate research from a few hundred million dollars pre-1990 to $1.7 billion today. He also ...
Tuesday, 06 March 2007
13. Religion and Civilization
(Archive/Features)
... came in Athens with the Parthenon. Constructed at the cost of seven hundred talents, perhaps some $4.2 million dollars, it housed the golden sculpture Athene Parthenos. Work on the edifice began in 447 ...
Monday, 29 November 2004
... the last hours of his presidency, Clinton was busy granting pardons left and right. As this is being written, Pardongate is still unfolding but appears to involve the trading of pardons for dollars. Among ...
Monday, 26 March 2001