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March 1981

Reason Magazine, March 1981 cover image
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The Plot to Take Over America's Railroads

There are powerful bureaucrats in Washington. There are master plans mapping out which railroads will live and die. There are innovators being kept from modernizing rail service. This is the saga of the Federal Railroad Administration.

William Burt

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Features

Concealed Costs/Bloated Benefits

Your federal tax dollars at work

John Semmens

Some Thoughts for the New President

Tibor Machan

Supreme Court Overturns Saccharin Ban

FDA must bear burden of proof

Bruce Bell

Who Can Cross Our Borders?

A new solution to the immigration problem

David Rees

Culture & Reviews

Movies

Flash Gordon; Resurrection; Somewhere in Time; The Glacier Fox

John Hospers

Books

What to Do About Money

Joe Cobb

The Rich Tradition of Political Economy

Craig Bolton

Speaking of Liberty

Geoffrey Nathan

Interpreting Hayek

Arthur Shenfield

Editorials

Biting the Bullet

Robert Poole

Columns

Editor's Notes

Robert Poole

Viewpoint: The Election

The case for pessimism

Murray Rothbard

Health & Welfare: Jet Lag, or How to Reset Your Internal Clocks

Sandy Shaw

Taxes: What Will Reagan Do about Taxes?

Timothy Condon

Spotlight: Popular Scientists

Durk Pearson and Sandy Shaw

Sharon Presley

Citings

Trends

Robert Poole and Christine Dorffi

Letters

Letters

Reason Staff

Brickbats

Brickbats

Thomas W. Hazlett

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