Dennis’ Rudzinski’s letter, “Congress should heed Mellon’s Lessons,” argued that lower taxes increase revenue. He points to Warren G. Harding slashing income taxes on the wealthy as evidence. However, Rudzinski ignores many parallels between today and the 1920s. In 1929, the Great Crash occurred. The 1920s, much like the 2000s,…
In the Declaration of Independence, our Founding Fathers declared that all Americans, indeed all of humanity, have inalienable rights to “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” The recent wrangling over the proposed health care bill is sorrowfully ignorant of this central tenet to the American cause. These inalienable rights,…
The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that the United States spends 15.3 percent of its gross domestic product on health care, or $6,714 per capita annually. Compare that to the United Kingdom, which spends 8.4 percent of GDP ($2,784 per capita), or Canada, which spends 10 percent of GDP ($3,672…