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  • Uncle Sam’s Health Club

    Published April 29, 1994
    Opinion -
    Many advocates of health care reform claim to be seeking a radical transformation of the U.S. health care system. Yet for the most part, their proposals call for nothing more than further government intervention in the health care industry.
  • School Choice: Church vs. State

    Published February 11, 1994
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    Nationwide pressure for school choice shows people now doubt that "public education" can happen only in schools owned and operated by the government.
  • Competition, Not Money, Works Wonders in Education

    Published January 28, 1994
    Opinion -
    About three decades ago, the Johnson Administration commissioned the outstanding social scientist James S. Coleman to prove that America's public schools needed more tax dollars.
  • Man Bites Dog; Property Taxes Refunded

    Published January 7, 1994
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    Big headlines are often made in small places. Crestwood, Illinois--population 12,000--has been in the middle of a quiet public policy revolution for two-and-a-half decades.
  • Dial 911 and Die

    Published April 14, 1992
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    Most Americans believe their local police have a duty to protect them against criminals. They are wrong. Some of them are dead wrong.
  • Medicare Reform Deja Vu?

    Published October 8, 1989
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    “The votes tell the story. On June 2, 1988, the House passed the Catastrophic Health Care Act 328-72. On Wednesday [October 4, 1989], the House voted to repeal it 360-66. Rep.
  • Hayek on Forced Credit Expansion

    Published June 1, 1932
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    “Instead of furthering the inevitable liquidation of the maladjustments brought about by the boom during the last three years, all conceivable means have been used to prevent that readjustment from taking place; and one of these means, which has

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