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If Your Airport Wait is More than 1% Longer with the Sequester, Its Politics

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness, Version 4.0 Posted on February 25, 2013 by Gordon AndersonFebruary 25, 2013

The sequester is supposed to be about government self-control, but Washington has once again made it politics.The mandated reductions of $44 billion, about 1 percent of the budget (which is still larger than last year’s budget), are supposed to be … Continue reading →

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How to Depoliticize the Supreme Court

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness, Version 4.0 Posted on February 21, 2013 by Gordon AndersonFebruary 21, 2013

One way we can improve the U.S. system of government is to change the nature of U.S. Supreme Court appointments. Anyone watching the appointment process realizes that there is a bitter partisan rivalry in which the money funding Democratic and … Continue reading →

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Giving Up on the Constitution?

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness, Version 4.0 Posted on February 18, 2013 by Gordon AndersonFebruary 18, 2013

In a December 30 editorial in the New York Times, Georgetown professor of constitutional law talks Louis Michael Seidman wrote about ideas in his book On Constitutional Disobedience, arguing that the failure of the U.S. government lies in archaic and … Continue reading →

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U.S. Founders would likely Prohibit Sale of Firearms to Federal Agencies

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness, Version 4.0 Posted on December 20, 2012 by Gordon AndersonDecember 20, 2012

Unconstitutional Agencies Article 1, Section 8, of the U.S. Constitution forbids the existence of any federal agency like the BATF, FBI, TSA, or Homeland Security which trains military or policing activity at the federal level. It clearly says that the … Continue reading →

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When Government Borrowing is a Fundamental Violation of Human Rights

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness, Version 4.0 Posted on November 23, 2012 by Gordon AndersonNovember 23, 2012

Most Governments are Guilty of Slavery One of the most serious social problems in the world today is government debt. Most of this debt is legally owed by individuals who never agreed to take on this debt obligation, but it … Continue reading →

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Pension Fund Mysticism: Unprincipled Deals and Money on Trees?

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness, Version 4.0 Posted on November 14, 2012 by Gordon AndersonNovember 14, 2012

The bankruptcy of San Bernardino analyzed by a Reuter’s article yesterday is a study in the growing dysfunctionality of governments in which public unions and politicians are creating total chaos by spending obligations that defy the laws of math and … Continue reading →

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Transcending the Partisan Tax Divide: Capital Gains Taxes vs. Income Taxes on Wages

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness, Version 4.0 Posted on November 6, 2012 by Gordon AndersonNovember 6, 2012

Our current United States tax structure values slavery more than work. Let me unpack this statement a bit. We tax capital gains at 15% while we tax income on wage labor at 28% to 35%, about twice the rate. This … Continue reading →

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Transcending the Partisan Tax Divide: Capital Gains vs. Corporate Taxes

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness, Version 4.0 Posted on August 13, 2012 by Gordon AndersonAugust 13, 2012

While recently engaged in a dialogue with an individual who was upset with the greed on Wall Street and wanted to increase corporate taxes, I realized that he was unable to understand the difference between corporate taxes and capital gains … Continue reading →

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The Fiction of Disinterested Administrative Governments

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness, Version 4.0 Posted on July 27, 2012 by Gordon AndersonJuly 27, 2012

Today I was sent an article by a friend asking for my response. It is titled “The Birth of the Administrative State:  Where It Came From and What It  Means for Limited Government” written by Ronald J. Pestritto, Associate Professor … Continue reading →

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The Federalist Papers and the Control of Bureaucratic Centralization

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness, Version 4.0 Posted on July 10, 2012 by Gordon AndersonJuly 10, 2012

Paragon House has made available a new edition of the Federalist Papers designed for e-book readers. Rereading them might be a good place to start in understanding how to rein in the out-of-control growth of U.S. governments. The Federalist Papers … Continue reading →

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