For example, while the tax rate Americans pay on personal income has fallen slightly in recent years, Social Security and local property levies have ballooned. Likewise, corporate and excise taxes have slid as a percentage of annual economic output, but state income taxes have risen more than fourfold. Gene Epstein, Barron's Online, April 14, 1997. Industriousness, self-sacrifice and generosity are possible even under difficult circumstances. David Horowitz, Salon , March 31, 1997.
Bilingualism is an expensive failure.
The amount of money our schools are spending on bilingual education is increasing much faster than the amount spent on regular instruction. Lt. Gov. A. Paul Cellucci at an April 17 press conference on overhauling bilingual education in the Commonwealth's public schools. Separating cash and State. Everyone's crying about the influence of money in politics and proposing limits on liberty as a solution. How easy it is to overlook the obvious.