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Witch Hunt: Coming to a State Near You
The Contrarian
By: Naomi Lopez
10.27.1998
Gender victimization activists who believe that rampant, habitual discrimination is the rule in the workplace are gearing up to prove their case "scientifically" on a state-by-state basis. For starters, Employment Discrimination Against Women in Washington State, 1997, published by the Rutgers School of Law, contends that gender discrimination is "regular operating practice" among private employers in Washington state. The Ford Foundation is bankrolling similar studies in all 50 states.
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What's New Democrat?
Capital Ideas
By: Steven F. Hayward, Ph.D
10.27.1998
Election eve brings fresh evidence that the greatest challenge to the Democratic Party comes not from Republicans but from Democrats themselves. Through the mail has come the premier issue of Blueprint: Ideas for a New Century, a new quarterly journal of the Democratic Leadership Council (DLC). All of the usual DLC suspects are here--Al From, Will Marshall, Elaine Kamarck, and Bill Galston--and they are ready to proclaim that the Era of the New Democrat has begun.
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A Taxing Proposition
Capital Ideas
By: Lance T. Izumi, J.D.
10.21.1998
What would you say if the government, seeking to fund more police, levied a special tax on jelly doughnuts? Or what if a special tax were placed on hats in order raise money to fund the creation of new public libraries? Most people would likely respond that while more police and libraries may be useful and even necessary, why should devotees of hats and jelly doughnuts be singled out to pay for goods that supposedly benefit the entire public? Yet, this discriminatory tax philosophy is what undergirds Proposition 10 on California’s November ballot.
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Hard Work Pays Off for Women
The Contrarian
By: Katherine Post
10.15.1998
Just when it seemed like discussions of women and work would never get past the recent White House follies, a story comes along to restore faith in the triumphs of hard work in a free society.
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The Other Car Tax
Capital Ideas
By: K. Lloyd Billingsley
10.14.1998
Despite a slight reduction of the car tax, cleverly disguised as a "registration fee," Californians get little relief. And even before they can pay the state’s high taxes, those who want to become Californians are subject to yet another example of state greed.
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Sprawl Brawl
Capital Ideas
By: Steven F. Hayward, Ph.D
10.7.1998
Professor William Fischell of Dartmouth College routinely asks his freshman economics class to guess how much of the land area in the continental United States is used for urban and suburban development (including roads, airfields, military bases, and so forth). The median guess is 30 percent.
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Bad Medicine for Children
Policy Alerts
By: A.J. Gokcek
10.7.1998
The claim to champion the health of children has been a consistent rhetorical winner for politicians promoting more government spending and control. From the expansion of Medicaid to its present status as a middle-class entitlement to the growth of school-based health clinics, massive new government programs that do little to improve health-care outcomes have all been created in the name of "the children." And now the latest program coming out of Washington moves us one step closer to nationalized medicine under the pretense of aiding children.
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The Government Smokescreen
Action Alerts
By: Mark Schiller, M.D.
10.2.1998
Government agencies are selectively promoting scientific evidence, playing fast and loose with accepted scientific methodology, and utilizing disingenuous advertising techniques to boost public opposition to passive smoke. Their motives may be well-intentioned — stopping people from an unhealthy habit. However, an outright ban on smoking is politically infeasible, given concerns for civil liberties.
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