By Bradley Harrington “Government subsidies can be critically analyzed according to a simple principle: You are smarter than the government, so when the government pays you to do something you wouldn’t do on your own, it is almost always paying you to do something stupid.” — P.J. O’Rourke, “All the …
By Bradley Harrington “I object to the creation, by ordinance, of a team designed to handle duties which are already the responsibility of existing city departments … I believe this is poor governance, and I hope that together we can ensure this does not happen again.” — Memo from Cheyenne …
By Bradley Harrington “It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,” 1867 — As most readers are aware, there’s been an awful lot of controversy lately about Cheyenne’s flooding problems, …
By Bradley Harrington “Taxes are not levied for the benefit of the taxed.” — Robert Heinlein, “Time Enough for Love,” 1973 — Taxes, we are all taught, are an essential requirement for civilization. Without them, we’ve been lectured all of our lives, our society would collapse in a whirlwind of …
