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Government Policy Quotes
EconomicsFinanceGovernment Policy There are only three ways to meet the unpaid bills of a nation. The first is taxation. The second is repudiation. The third is inflation.
EconomicsGovernment PolicyPoliticsReformTaxation When liberals advocate a value-added tax, conservatives should respond: Taxing consumption has merits, so we will consider it - after the 16th Amendment is repealed.
EconomicsFiscal ResponsibilityGovernment PolicyWealth Management Prosperity cannot be restored by raids upon the public Treasury.
Fiscal PolicyGovernment PolicyTaxes If people want capital gains taxed more like the highest rate on income, that's a good discussion. Maybe that's the way to help close the deficit.
Corporate PowerEconomicsGovernment PolicyPublic PolicyTaxation Corporations do not pay taxes, they collect them, passing the burden to consumers as a cost of production. And corporate taxation is a feast of rent-seeking - a cornucopia of credits, exemptions and other subsidies conferred by the political class on favored, and grateful, corporations.
EconomicsGovernment PolicyHistorySocietyWar World War II was the last government program that really worked.
Civil RightsGender EqualityGovernment PolicyLegal HistoryWomen in Academia I was the first tenured woman at Columbia. That was 1972; every law school was looking for its woman. Why? Because Stan Pottinger, who was then head of the office for civil rights of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, was enforcing the Nixon government contract program.
EconomyFuture PlanningGovernment PolicyInnovationScience And Technology Innovations in science and technology are the engines of the 21st-century economy; if you care about the wealth and health of your nation tomorrow, then you'd better rethink how you allocate taxes to fund science. The federal budget needs to recognize this.
DependencyGovernment PolicyPartiesPoliticsWelfare Promoting dependency is the Democratic Party's vocation. It knows that almost all entitlements are forever, and those that are not - e.g., the lifetime eligibility for welfare, repealed in 1996 - are not for the middle class.
Government PolicyLegal and Ethical IssuesPopulation ControlReproductive RightsSocietal Concerns Frankly, I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don't want to have too many of.
Border SecurityDevelopment DisparitiesGovernment PolicyImmigration PolicyNational Security America is the only developed nation that has a 2,000-mile border with a developing nation, and the government's refusal to control that border is why there are an estimated 460,000 illegal immigrants in Arizona and why the nation, sensibly insisting on first things first, resists 'comprehensive' immigration reform.