Ramping Up Government’s War on Savings
By Gary M. Galles There has long been a cottage industry of telling Americans they don’t save enough. One of many Wall Street Journal articles…
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Immobility Plan 2035
Op-Ed by Gary M. Galles In 2015, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti announced his Vision Zero plan to eliminate the more than 200 annual non-driver…
You Can’t Even Get Past Its Title Before Discovering Good Reasons To Oppose AB 257
By Gary M. Galles AB 257 is one step closer to becoming law in California. It sailed through the Senate Appropriations Committee on August 11,…
A Reality Czar? What Could Possibly Go Wrong
By Gary M. Galles In his April 25 American Enterprise Institute post, “Obama is Wrong About Regulating Disinformation,” Mark Jamison disputes Barack Obama’s recent argument…
No, We Don’t Need a “Reality Czar”: Let Truth and Falsehood Grapple
By Gary M. Galles New York Times writer Kevin Roose recently surveyed “our truth-challenged information ecosystem” and found a proliferation of “hoaxes, lies and collective…
2020 Candidates Offer New Government Ponzi Schemes
By Gary Galles Seeing the Democrat debates has reminded Americans just how much of campaigning is promising something-for-next-to-nothing in attempts to buy electoral support. But…
The Next Step in Social Security’s Ponzi Scheme
By Garry Galles On January 30, Rep. John Larson and 200 Democratic co-sponsors introduced the Social Security 2100 Act. Portrayed as giving retirees long-overdue benefit…
The Income Tax: Still the Root of All Evil
By Gary M. Galles February 25 is a momentous day in American history. It is the day in 1913 the 16th Amendment, authorizing a federal…
Garet Garrett: The Journalist Who Predicted Americans Would Sacrifice Liberty to a Government Leviathan
By Gary M. Galles February 19 marks the birth of a great American individualist, called “one of the most eloquent defenders of freedom in America”—Garet…
Government Thrives by Keeping People Blind to Its True Costs
By Gary M. Galles Ever wonder why people put blinders on horses? As prey animals, horses have eyes on the sides of their heads to…