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Thursday, January 05, 2006

The Ten Worst Ideas in American History

My latest at the Partial Observer.

There are so many rotten ideas, income taxes didn't even make the list!

4 comments:

  1. You forgot the designated hitter.

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  2. VF,
    Yeah, and the Holy Bible never shows up on the NYT bestseller list, either...

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  3. Anonymous8:44 AM CST

    Great list, although I think your order may have been a bit off...(Government schools at #9? Really??)

    I would have put government schooling and fiat money as 1 and 2, respectively...as they are the enablers of all the rest.

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  4. At the root of about half of these ills is the Constitution itself, based on the principle of a national government with direct legislative authority over the peoples of the states. The old Confederation was funded by state governments, which collected their quotas through a land value tax; and it could only disburse its own funds and give orders to its own officers--any direct legislation had to be *requested* from the state legislatures.

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