Issues : August/September 1997

August/September 1997

Cash Money

Thomas W. Hazlett

How consumer activists sabotage ATM customers
Courting Trouble

Michael W. Lynch

Congress would rather complain about life-tenured federal judges than make recalcitrant bureaucrats enforce the law.
Taxing Times

Daniel J. Mitchell

Squabbling between flat taxers and sales taxers could allow the Internal Revenue Code to escape unscathed.
Retro Style

Walter Olson

Redefining yesterday's green light as red
Environmental Injustice

Henry Payne

How green ideology denies poor blacks good jobs
Money Walks

John J. Pitney, Jr.

Why campaign contributions aren't as corrupting as you think

The Embarassment of Riches

Brian Doherty

For today's independent artists, integrity can be financially rewarding. Can punk rock and alternative comics make peace with entrepreneurial capitalism?
Polluted Science

Michael Fumento

New air pollution regulations based on questionable science and creative economic analysis could cost billions and change the way Americans mow their lawns, heat their homes, clean their clothes, and barbecue their burgers. Can Congress stop this regulato
Thy Neighbor's Keeper

Amy Sherman

Can private charities replace tax-funded welfare? A program in one Maryland county suggests the challenges facing church-based efforts to help welfae mothers become self-sufficient.