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Guest Columnists
What Should Happen When Fuel-Efficient Vehicles Take Over the Roads
- By Veronique de Rugy
The government has a dilemma: It's pushing hard for fuel-efficient vehicles, but gas taxes pay for roads. There's an obvious fix, but are Americans ready for it?
Granted, tax credits, subsidies and government mandates aren't delivering the electric-vehicle sales surge the Biden administration promised. Tax breaks for non-wealthy buyers are proving less effective than predicted by government planners, and automakers like Toyota are seeing increased interest from consumers in more affordable and practical hybrids.
John C. Calhoun and the Providential Progress of Technology and Government
- By Winston McCuen - South Carolina
We moderns are awash in technology. Technology frames our lives physically and mentally, and often — despite its benefits -- dominates us to our detriment, reaching farther into us than we care to admit -- even into our inner depths, spiritually.
More than mere inventions and devices, technology in its deepest sense is a mode of life and of living. It is a powerful and seductive force —ever promising greater ease and convenience and pleasure and titillation and thrill, in limitless or infinite series. An aggressive force with a momentum of its own, it competes with and often overwhelms and overshadows other, healthier, and more civilizing values and ways and rhythms of living.
America, France and the Free Market
- By Veronique de Rugy
It's fashionable to claim that the free-market ideas of Nobel-laureate economist Milton Friedman have failed the country, and that it's time for new policies. Campaigning in 2020, Joe Biden declared that "Milton Friedman isn't running the show anymore." More recently, New York Times columnist David Leonhardt noted that people like Friedman promised that the free market "would bring prosperity for all. It has not."
This is nonsense. For one thing, I wish we lived in a world fashioned more fully by Friedman's ideas. Sadly, while his insights have indeed influenced some U.S. economic policies, particularly during the Reagan administration, the extent of their implementation has been quite limited.
A Thanksgiving Lesson From Grateful and Prepared American Families
- By Veronique de Rugy
Most Americans meticulously plan their Thanksgiving meals and travel, sometimes budgeting months in advance to celebrate at a reasonable price tag. This prudent embodiment of both gratitude and restraint starkly contrasts with the approach of our politicians. It's an inconsistency that, especially this season, merits reflection.
The national debt, much like our Thanksgiving appetites, has swelled to gargantuan proportions. Budget gluttony practically defies the laws of fiscal gravity. In 2023, we reached a record $33 trillion in national debt and a $1.7 trillion deficit. Politicians have opted for the equivalent of year-round sumptuous feasts while ignoring the costs.
Thanksgiving 2023 Reflections
- By Alveda King
"Thank God for what we have left." -- Rev. Martin Luther King, Sr.
For many people, the Thanksgiving season is a time for expressing gratitude to God for our many blessings. I have been spending time this season reflecting on how grateful I am to have been raised by my parents, Rev. A.D. King and Dr. Naomi King. My father’s legacy lives on in his powerful sermons, and writings, and in the work and lives of his children.
While my mother Naomi, also known by her fans as "the Butterfly Queen," is 92, years old now, she continues to advocate globally for peace and justice. I recently traveled to Amsterdam as her stand-in as she was slated to share her long-earned wisdom with the world. Lest we forget, the generational Bible based truths must be taught to every generation, every decade, and on every platform. And please remember, "When peripherals collide, convergence is imminent."
Here's One Way to Demand Rational Government
- By Veronique de Rugy
In a world where economic decisions are mostly driven by short-term goals and political pressures, the need for a long-term, evidence-based approach is more pressing than at any time in memory. Enter the Copenhagen Consensus -- a beacon of analytical clarity conceived by Danish intellectual Bjorn Lomborg. It aims to reshape global discourse by prioritizing initiatives based on their cost-effectiveness. Imagine harnessing this model to direct fiscal policy!
Many of today's budgetary problems could be solved if only politicians and voters recognized that not every need and problem is equally weighty. Such recognition -- a staple of successful private-sector projects -- ought to become commonplace in the public sector.
Congress Can Redeem Itself by Calling for Help
- By Veronique de Rugy
There's much talk today about the need for a fiscal commission. The House Budget Committee held a hearing about it a few weeks ago. Pundits are Substacking about whether using the approach to put federal finances on a sustainable path is a good or a bad idea. And according to a recent polling, voters support the idea of a commission.
Great. But that shouldn't obscure the fact that a commission would be the result of our legislators constantly acting like children by refusing to be good stewards of taxpayers' dollars, which is their No. 1 job. There are also a few important things needed to make such a commission successful.
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