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Beginning about four years ago, Bayou and buddies Manuel Domergue and Lionel Primault identified a handful of specific problems that thousands, if not millions, of people face every day. Then they created groups dedicated to those individual causes, with perhaps a dozen full-time members running each. Every group comes...
Steroids did not give McGwire, Sosa, Bonds, or any other pariahs the ability to hit major-league pitching. All but the most ardent moralists and car-radio screamers would grant that most of the now tarnished stars of baseball’s Juiced Era were skilled ballplayers even without the...
Of course, critics are right that the program will probably drive up the price of used cars for poor people who need them and will have only a marginal effect on the long-term prospects of the auto industry. Subsidies don't so much increase demand as kidnap it, inspire...
The government can't begin to measure the hidden costs, of course, of sleep or sanity or solitude. It fails to factor in marginal expenditures on window-repairing, rug-cleaning, photo-processing, cell phones, sedatives. I'm thinking the bureaucrats have not been to a mall lately, since their tables...
As long as we're talking about ham-handed measures, we might also want to consider the most ham-handed pay regulation of all - progressive income taxes. It cannot be entirely coincidental that the great explosion in executive and Wall Street pay began about the same time that Washington was...