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Are Corporations People?

  • Culture
April 19, 2011June 7, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

The ‘corporation’ has been an item of controversy in the past, and not only on the left.  This The Economist article, “Peculiar people,” is a good primer on the issue.  I would add that: 1.  Most corporations in America are not ‘big […]

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What I Fear

  • Politics
March 14, 2011July 3, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

The poll shows that, while Americans do not greatly love labor unions overall, they seem to want to defend the collective bargaining rights of the public sector.  What is frightening about this is that the public is very cynical nowadays […]

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Regulations

  • Politics
March 10, 2011June 7, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Mark Lacter, in Los Angeles magazine not generally regarded as a right wing magazine, describes the regulatory problems in the City of Los Angeles with regard to establishing any kind of a new business.  It does not fall much short […]

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I Like Some Taxes Less Than Others, Notes on the California Situation

  • California
February 3, 2011July 5, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Originally the Republicans were going to be totally obstructive and try to keep the necessary ballot initiatives for the special election regarding taxes from going to the public at all.  Now Mimi Walters, who had been the Republican candidate for […]

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Are “Big Corporations” People? And Can Everything Be Blamed on Them?

  • Religion
February 4, 2010July 3, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

The recent decision that corporations and unions are free to make independent expenditures and public commentary on elections frightened a lot of people.  It did not empower these organizations to contribute directly to campaigns in unlimited qualities, only to engage […]

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Where I’m Still Libertarian (With a couple of shameless plugs.)

  • Politics
November 18, 2009December 9, 2021
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Now that I have become a big government Democrat, I am farther removed from the Libertarians than I ever was before. But as a Christian, I could never be a philosophical Libertarian, much as I would have liked to be […]

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