Hard Times for Hard Assets
Congress wants to cash in on collectibles-by taxing them at higher rates.
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Forest Socialism
National forests are socialized forests, and corporate America wants to keep it that way.
They Built Their Own Highway…
and other tales of private land-use planning
Winds of Opportunity
Gusty profits are blowing in those bureaucratic breezes
How to Dismantle the Soviet Empire
"Disarmament or dismemberment"-it may be an offer the Soviet government can't refuse
Blazing Battles
Two New England towns tried to hire private fire-protection firms last year, and the ensuing political fights are still smoldering.
The Worst Prison System in America?
The Texas jails were notorious, but documentary film maker Eric Sherman decided to look at them from another angle.
Hanging Up on Your Phone Company
How technology is digging a grave for local phone monopolies.
The Wizards of Zilch
Today's magicians and soothsayers are on bureaucratic payrolls-and they have a language all their own.
You Can't Have Marx Without Stalin
On the centennial of Karl Marx's death, a philosopher disputes the claim that the Marxist tradition is humanistic.
God Save the Market!
Former Labour leaders one and all, Britain's "Gang of Four" are sparking a new promarket consensus.
"If 1,000 Men Were Not to Pay Their Tax Bills This Year…"
Thoreau's view on civil disobedience-exemplified by his tax resistance-influenced Tolstoy, Gandhi, and Martin Luther King. But who influenced Thoreau?
And Now, a Pitch for Advertising
Commercials got you down? Jingles driving you nuts? Try THIS new look at advertising for fast, effective relief!
Free the D.C. 2!
There's an easy solution to the federal government's mismanagement of its two commercial airports-sell them off!
America's Tragic Mistake
The welfare state was created just as the "need" for it was disappearing.
How to Get Out of the Food Stamp Trap
The food stamp program is one of the government's largest-and probably the most abused-welfare programs. But private efforts point the way out of this costly response to hunger.
The User Fee Illusion
Charging the users of government services instead of the taxpayers sounds like a great reform, but it masks the fundamental issues.
Freaked Out by Technology
A student of the '60s takes a new look at what moved the New Left.
Tyranny Takes the Gold
In the name of the Olympics, the state moved in like a storm trooper.
Inflammatory Rhetoric
Most of what you've probably heard about natural-gas control isn't true. And much of it probably came from a single source…
The Freedom Factor
What foments violence and war? What fosters peace? A political scientist tallies the evidence.
Mister Ed Goes to Washington
What sort of politician do voters prefer-laid-back media stars or publicity-shy hard workers? New York Mayor Ed Koch's record as congressman yields the answer.
The True Mothers of Feminism
Angelina and Sarah Grimké and America's other early defenders of woman's rights would have little in common with today's mainstream feminists.
No-Code Comfort
Safe and sound housing at a lower cost-that's what Houston-area home buyers are getting without building codes.
Fair Weather
Government weather reporting soaks taxpayers to shower benefits on special interests.
Next Stop: Solvency
The New York subways don't really need government subsidies-so says a little-noticed MTA study. And that means they really could be sold off.
Balancing Act
Is a constitutional amendment the way to limit runaway taxing and spending?
Make Hay with High-Tech
The darling one-product company of today can suddenly find it has a new competitor with a far-superior product line.
Ride High with Inflation
The primary trend is increasing inflation at least through the end of 1986, peaking perhaps at an annual rate of 25 percent by that time.
Beware These Gold & Silver Myths
Watch out for some common fallacies about the precious metals
Mine the Metals Market
Exploit the profits that lie in indium, rhenium, germanium, and other strategic metals
How to Invest a Windfall
A strategy for getting the most from a single lump sum
Towering Entrepreneurs
What happens when private firms run air traffic control towers?
Profits with Honor
Capitalism delivers the goods…but is capitalism good?
Conservation In Deed
Saving the environment through ownership
Psychiatric Self-Defense
A new kind of "living will" would protect people from involuntary psychiatric intervention
Supply-Side Boom
The long-awaited tax cut is fueling the recovery-but dangers still lurk.
Looking Back: A REASON Retrospective
From issues covered to people published, highlights from 164 REASONs
Home Schooling: Up from Underground
Parents who want to teach their kids at home are increasingly winning court battles and organizing self-help networks.
Shalt Thou Bear Faceless Witness?
Crime Stoppers programs work, but they raise some troubling issues.
Arabian Nightmare
The government is quietly preparing to go to war to save OPEC.
Hostage Factories
The hidden costs of plant closing laws
Losing Ground in Oregon
Despite widespread dissatisfaction with it, the nation's toughest land-use control law keeps surviving challenges.
Feet to the Fire
What happens when a private fire company fails to satisfy its customers?
The Welfare State Will Wither Away
The supposed beneficiaries of the modern welfare state are increasingly disgruntled. A director of London's Institute for Economic Affairs reports on the forces that, he predicts, will bring about fundamental change.
When the Smoke Clears
For nearly eight years Alaska has been the only state where the use of marijuana is legal. it's time to take a look at the consequences.
