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On Feeling Guilty for Ordering Stuff Online

  • Culture
June 16, 2017August 27, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

I like ordering things online and not having to hunt for them in stores.  And sometimes the alternative is being eliminated.  Just like paying cash or taking public transit, live stores, especially bookstores, are disappearing.  There is only one major […]

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An Addendum to the Manifesto: My Youth as a Deficit Hawk – Howard Ahmanson

  • Economics
October 17, 2016December 9, 2021
Author: Howard Ahmanson

It occurred to me that during the first period in my life that I was a conservative, which was in my youth, I was motivated mainly by deficit hawkery.  I was ten in the year that Nixon ran against Kennedy, […]

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The Working Class Might be Shooting Itself in the Foot by Being Anti-Free Trade

  • Economics
March 21, 2016August 27, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

One of the explanations of the rise of Donald Trump is the concern by his working class followers about free trade, as well as immigration.  After thinking of just how and where their standard of living is declining, I wonder […]

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The Gasoline Tax: Charles Krauthammer Breaks with Republican Orthodoxy

  • Economics
March 14, 2016July 17, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Charles Krauthammer, generally regarded as a conservative writer, declared more than a year ago that he had been for a gasoline tax increase of $1 a gallon for 32 years.  That would be, if I calculate right, since 1983. I’ve […]

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If We’re ‘Better Behaved’ Just Because We’re Affluent, God is Not Impressed

  • Religion
September 2, 2015July 17, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

It is often believed that poorer people are worse behaved and therefore undesirable neighbors; and certainly enough, certain pathological behaviors are more common in the poor communities.  This is used as an argument for zoning and government land use control […]

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Which Taxes to Raise – A Revision

  • Economics
February 27, 2015July 17, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

In earlier posts I suggested that the top bracket income tax could be raised to up to 40%, as in the Clinton era, without hurting government revenues or damaging the economy.  It still might not, but I have decided that […]

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Edward Kleinbard Says, Don’t Soak the Few and the Rich

  • Politics
December 22, 2014July 17, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Edward Kleinbard, a professor at the University of Southern California, has pointed out that despite and in the face of extreme income inequality, not only is America’s tax system fairly ‘progressive’, its spending is fairly progressive in that the less […]

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If We Treated Food the Way We Treated Housing

  • Economics
November 18, 2014July 17, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Josh Barro, an economics columnist at the New York Times who used to be at Forbes, has written an interesting column on what the food marketplace would be like if we owned lifetime resaleable futures in our food instead of […]

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Why Republicans Are Not Always Reliable Defenders of Economic Liberty

  • Politics
November 10, 2014July 17, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

As an activist against ‘redevelopment,’ I often wondered why Republicans, who posture themselves as the party of  ‘small government’ or ‘limited government,’ were so hard to convince to repeal redevelopment.  Josh Barro, a clever columnist for the New York Times, […]

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Agrarianism Without Agriculture?

  • Economics
August 8, 2014July 17, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

The ever-surprising Ralph Nader has recently been reading some paleo-conservative sources, and has written a book entitled Unstoppable; the Emerging Left-Right Alliance to Dismantle the Corporate State.  In the acknowledgements at the end, he specifically thanks Intercollegiate Studies Institute, a […]

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