By Bradley Harrington “To take from one, because it is thought his own industry and that of his fathers has acquired too much … is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association, the guarantee to everyone the free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it.” — …
By Bradley Harrington “Tax the rich / Feed the poor / ‘Till there are no rich no more …” — “I’d love to change the world,” Alvin Lee, 1971 — There are a large number of factors that can impact the manner in which an economy grows, or has its …
By Bradley Harrington “The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.” — Thomas Jefferson, “Letter to John Taylor,” 1816 — Last week we determined that few, if any, of our state legislators grasp that the …
By Bradley Harrington “What is prudence in the conduct of every private family can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom.” — Adam Smith, “The Wealth of Nations,” 1776 — It isn’t often that our state legislators get it right, but — in the fashion of the proverbial …
