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25 Years Ago in Reason:

Reason Staff | From the February 2004 issue

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"It's all too easy to be lulled into a false sense of optimism by the success of airline deregulation….Despite studies showing the immense cost of regulation…most of the agencies are solidly entrenched, not just in the political system but in people's minds."

-Robert Poole Jr., Editorial

"In the name of intellectual freedom, the Communications Act [of 1979] stifles the ideas, views, and interests of broadcasters."

-Winston N. Martin, "The Decline and Fall of Broadcasters' Rights"

"You've got to hand it to the U.S. Social Security Administration. What other agent of any government could say…that it takes more from American payrolls than the Internal Revenue Service, and that its own employees want no part of the program they administer?"

-Warren J. Shore, "The Great 1979 Social Security Heist"

"The present apparatus of broadcast regulation cheats the broadcast journalist of the independence promised by the First Amendment and so cheats the American people of the vigor and diversity they should expect from all of our nation's media."

-Bill Monroe, "Unchain the Electronic Media"

"You've got to hand it to the U.S. Social Security Administration. What other agent of any government could say…that it takes more from American payrolls than the Internal Revenue Service, and that its own employees want no part of the program they administer?"

-- Warren J. Shore, "The Great 1979 Social Security Heist"

"The present apparatus of broadcast regulation cheats the broadcast journalist of the independence promised by the First Amendment and so cheats the American people of the vigor and diversity they should expect from all of our nation's media."

-- Bill Monroe, "Unchain the Electronic Media"

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