Restoring American One County at a Time Chapter 5: Taxation 5.3 How to Cut Taxes We have now seen how taxes used to be very low in this nation. We have seen—enough anyway—how that has changed over time. In an earlier section we talked about the “ratchet effect” in the size and power of government. [...]
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A couple of months ago, my friend Roger and I, plus our families, went to visit the Amon Carter Museum in Forth Worth, Texas. Out goal was to see the collection of works by the two great artists of the American West, Frederic Remington and Charles Marion Russell. We spent a couple of hours at [...]
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“Politicians are like diapers; they need to be changed often and for the same reason.”― Mark Twain Your husband hears your five-week old baby crying. You know the problem. She has a dirty diaper. You know what needs to be done. Her diaper needs changing. You’re tired. The baby’s been cranky all day, and you [...]
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There is that old and reliable indicator of when a politician is lying: his mouth is open. There is, however, an exception to this rule: when he’s talking about raising taxes. Then you can trust his announcements. For this reason, it is no surprise that the word “tariff” derives from an old Arabic root meaning [...]
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“Dominionism” is getting a lot of press these days—and understandably so. Anytime a conservative even rustles the pages of a Bible, a leftist will try to accuse him of planning a new Inquisition, holocaust, and terrorism, hating all Jews, blacks, and women, and for being against science as well as just plain stupid. For leftists, [...]
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I am not surprised by the SAT scores comparison between the three groups: homeschoolers, religious-based private schools, and public schools. Homeschoolers beat the other two groups in every category, and consistently score above the 84th percentile in every category. Only 29 per cent of the homeschooling fathers and 13 per cent of the mothers have [...]
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I was wondering when liberals were going to bring Jesus into the discussion about taxing the rich. Christians are labeled ‘theocrats’ and ‘dominionists’ when they quote the Bible, but when a liberal appeals to Jesus she’s being compassionate. The latest is an article written by Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite who is a professor at the mostly [...]
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Restoring America One County at a Time Chapter 5: Taxation 5.1 Taxation in a Free America We have now laid out the fundamental shape of decentralized government as it ought to be. The county should be fundamental, and people should have to deal with no government official other that their county officials, with perhaps limited [...]
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There is no doubt that the sin of Adam and Eve was met with a curse from God. Part of that curse came upon the ground, and thus upon our work: cursed is the ground because of you; in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life; thorns and thistles it [...]
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When Reb Bradley published his article, “Solving the Crisis in Homeschooling,” it deservedly received much attention from the homeschool community in the US. The article is an honest estimate of the blind spots in homeschooling, told by a homeschooling father who is looking back and assessing the mistakes he has made; and also the mistakes [...]
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