25 years ago in reason."As of 1978, even if every seat on every Amtrak Amtrak, the National Railroad Passenger Corp., authorized to operate virtually all intercity passenger railroad routes in the United States. Amtrak was created by Congress in 1970 in response to more than two decades of continuous operating deficits by privately run train were full on every run, Amtrak would still lose nearly $100 million per year." --Jeffrey Shedd, "Amtrak: Congress's Toy Trains toy train n → tren m de juguete " "[The Internal Revenue Service] just flat, plain scares most people because [the IRS An abbreviation for the Internal Revenue Service, a federal agency charged with the responsibility of administering and enforcing internal revenue laws. ] wants it that way. It very shrewdly utilizes the unprecedented amount of power it has for that purpose." --Timothy Condon, "An Open Letter to President Reagan" "Nor has the Republican victory changed the underlying assumptions held by the political establishment. There are apparently few people who believe that even $50 billion can be cut from the 1982 Carter budget of $700 billion." --Robert James Lee James Lee is the name of:
"Although the effects of government regulation may be unrecorded, they are there. Consumers will end up paying higher prices, workers will enjoy fewer job opportunities, or enterprising en·ter·pris·ing adj. Showing initiative and willingness to undertake new projects: The enterprising children opened a lemonade stand. new producers will be prevented from entering the restricted industry." --Russell Shannon, "Are Businesses Really Opposed to Big Government?" --May 1981 |
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