Opinion Forum

Currency Controls and Other Mistakes

October 29th, 2011

By Dan Miller Here is a link to a good nuts and bolts article by Daniel, a blogger in Venezuela who writes at Venezuela News and Views. He also runs a small manufacturing business and has to import material not available in Venezuela for the stuff he makes. Bureaucratic controls on access to foreign currency [...]

Articles written by Dan Miller
Tags: bureaucracy, controls, currency, distortion, foreign, regulations, tax code
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What’s Coming for We the Peons Next Year?

October 26th, 2010

By Dan Miller In the future, we absolutely must sustain a level of commitment to liberty comparable to the current wave. There is no other way. The best-case scenarios are probably that Republicans/ T.E.A. candidates et al will win simple but less than veto proof majorities in the House and in the Senate in November, [...]

Articles written by Dan Miller
Tags: 2010 election, bureaucracy, entrepreneur, Obama, pawn, peon, TEA
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Health Care Red Tape

October 19th, 2009

It’s a term directed derisively at government bureaucracy, often accompanied by copious cursing. But something’s happened with health care as administered by private insurance companies that can only be described as [expletive deleted] red tape. Here’s a recent example that’s astounding, given the rip-roaring national debate as to whether private insurers or government can provide [...]

Articles written by Jan Barry
Tags: bureaucracy, health care, health insurance, red tape
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