What Will the Republicans Do?
The Republican Party, the chief agent of a great business oligarchy and its allies, will seek every opportunity—in Congress, State legislatures, administration, and the courts—to block and reverse...
View ArticleBusiness Political Power: The Fate of Public and Social Services During...
In the United States, one of the casualties of every major recession has long been public and social services delivered by state and local governments, because of budget crises at the state and local...
View ArticleThe Keynesian Dilemma
There is not the slightest doubt about the basic truth of the Keynesian economic proposition. It is that, given the large size of modern government budgets in relation to a nation's economy, inequality...
View ArticleBusiness Political Power: The Present Weak Economic Recovery
Ben Bernanke recently declared that the present recovery may take another four years, and this estimate is generally shared. It is commonly assumed that the causes of this situation are ineluctable...
View ArticleBusiness Political Power: The Federal Debt and Entitlements
The conservative business community perpetually puts out massive propaganda on these two subjects that is misleading. We may review each of these two subjects separately:The Federal DebtThe standard...
View ArticleBusiness Political Power: The American Health Care System
While inequalities in various other things are necessary for economic incentives, health care should be provided on a fully equal basis, with family income no longer playing any role in access to...
View ArticleBusiness Political Power: Tuition in Post-Secondary Education
If "equality of opportunity" is to be a reality, not superficial rhetoric, then all post-secondary education, i.e. vocational training, community colleges, universities, and professional schools,...
View ArticleBusiness Political Power: America's Inner Cities
In the United States, unlike urban patterns in many other countries, inner cities across the nation have long contained crime infested slums unfit for human habitation.While much of the American...
View ArticleTerrorist Activity Against the United States: Law Enforcement vs. Causes
The United States has endeavored to deal with a series of problems by a heavy emphasis on what can be called "law-enforcement" approaches, while doing little to face up to causes. This has been true of...
View ArticleThe Functions of Trade Unions: The Case for Selective Transfers to Government
Recent actions in Wisconsin by Republican Governor Scott Walker, and Republican leaders in other states, have prompted heated debate over the general role of trade unions. Both sides have tended to...
View ArticleTobacco Promotion and the "Private-Enterprise" Doctrine
Given the effects of tobacco upon human health, U. S. public policy should aim, alongside education, to remove the promotion of tobacco products through their advertising.This faces two basic...
View ArticleThe Funding of State and Local Governments: The Case for General Revenue-Sharing
The inherited pattern in the United States of funding of state and local governments mainly by taxation at their own levels is associated in much of the public mind with "local control."This inherited...
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