Excerpts from the Book 'The Conservative Nanny State':

... are smart enough to conceal their dependence on the government. Conservatives want to use the government to distribute income upward to higher ...
... part due to efforts by proponents of the conservative nanny state to conceal the protectionist barriers that benefit essionals like themselves. When confronted ...
... paid workers, it amplifies other factors placing downward pressure on the wages of less skilled workers. Licensing Requirements and Unions. Trade ...
... This issue comes up most directly with regard to the actions of unions, a mechanism through which some less educated workers have tried to restrict ...
... for the Fed to take actions to slow the economy. Some differences in policy can stem from differences in how people understand the economy. As noted ...
... who ended up with lower pay and benefits or worse job conditions because their employment opportunities were limited by Volcker and Greenspan's actions. ...
... employees gain representation on corporate boards, but that is an issue best left for another book.]. There is a better argument to require this sort ...
... mechanisms for supporting innovation and creative work, it is not difficult to identify the key issues involved. The first part of the story is measuring ...
... the industry is not locating its research where it will minimize research costs, it is using location decisions as a political tool to allow it to charge ...
... (see Calem and Mester, 1995). Insofar as this explanation is correct, consumers are likely to see little benefit in the form of lower interest rates, ...
... rules. The lenders also willingly made these loans under the old bankruptcy rules. Presumably, the lenders understood the risk of default that was ...
... the process can delay any payment by several years. Often plaintiffs negotiate a settlement for a sum substantially less than the jury's award in order ...
... land. Similarly, in an effort to protect wetlands, the federal government has placed restrictions on the uses of land in some areas. This could also ...
... to speak to a family that had lost its farm due to the estate tax. The Farm Bureau was unable to identify a single family in the entire country who ...
... to a mother receiving TANF from the government than a clever entrepreneur who evades $500,000 in tax liability. [*1 IRS Workers Face More Investigations ...
... sales of stocks, bonds, options, futures, and other financial instruments could raise $70 billion a year.*14 Most of this money would be raised from ...
... costs of Social Security, at less than 0.5 percent, is a bargain. There is no mystery as to why Social Security is so much cheaper to administer ...
... drug benefit in the 2003 law establishing a Medicare drug benefit. The same logic has led providers of wireless Inter service to run to state legislatures ...
... reversing conservative nanny state policies that redistribute income upward. In a period of stagnant or declining real wages, the public will be very ...
... addition to serving for thirty years (1860-90) as director of publication for Hachette. A native of Sens in the Bourgogne rgion, douard Charton trained ...