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Governments have long used subsidies as economic-development tools, particularly in nascent industries. But economists argue that in mature industries subsidies ultimately do harm by propping up inefficient and unproductive firms...
Worse, the implications of the Hatch-Hansen bill extend beyond the irreversible harm to the redrock wilderness. First, the bill would cripple the landmark Wilderness Act of 1964, the law which is the foundation of all of our nation's protected wilderness areas. So-called "hard release" language specifies that this land can never receive wilderness designation, even if future generations wish to preserve it. Second, the passage of the Hatch-Hansen bill would establish a precedent for similar legislation which would open public lands across the nation. This is not just a regional issue...
However, a significant minority of council members said the resolution will needlessly harm ROTC students who have no control over the military's policies...
...drug havens that many eastern Caribbean countries have become. The story simply reiterated what many of us islanders have long known: these islands are America's unprotected flank. Long-term neglect of their welfare, whether through budgetary restraints or through myopic, reactionary and isolationist policies, will only harm the most vital assets of the U.S., its people. ORVILLE RAWLINS Commerce, Texas
...produced a new debate over the costs and benefits of free trade. Sadly, most of the Republican establishment has dismissed Buchanan's views as economic nonsense without realizing that his criticisms of current trade policy do have some basis in fact. Certainly, full-blown protectionism would inflict great harm on the American economy. But that does not necessarily imply that free trade is the answer. Rather, the United States should discard the obsolete notion that free trade is the best alternative in every case and instead selectively engage in protectionist practices both to force other nations to lower their...