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If we can’t kill farm subsidies, what can we kill?
Published January 8th, 2013 - 12:05AM
Symbolic of the debate we’re not having about government’s size and role – the essence of the deficit problem – is the future of farm subsidies. Running $10 billion to $15 billion annually, they don’t do much good.
Restricting shale-gas exports will hurt everyone
Published December 26th, 2012 - 12:05AM
Let’s not smother the shale-gas boom. It is the crown jewel of the disappointing economic recovery. Why tamper with success?
Ditch the idea that everyone should go to college
Published June 2nd, 2012 - 11:49AM
The college-for-all crusade has outlived its usefulness. Time to ditch it. Like the crusade to make all Americans homeowners, it's now doing more harm than good. It looms as the largest mistake in educational policy since World War II, even though higher education's expansion also ranks as one of America's great postwar triumphs.
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