Where’s My Mail?
I don’t want to sound like Lansberry, the legendary Pittsburgher who walked around town for decades with a protest sign saying that the government was withholding his mail, but...
About: Ralph R. Reiland
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Killing Jobs via ObamaCare
Now that the politicians have delivered an anti-debt deal that adds an estimated $8 trillion to the current $14.5 trillion federal debt over the next 10 years, President Obama...
An Amy Winehouse Government: Our Spending and Debt Binge
It feels like we’re dealing with an Amy Winehouse form of governing. “These overdoses happen because these guys drink 20 beers and then reach for their heroin,” a friend...
Blueberry Economics
SEA ISLE, N.J. — I should be worrying about how the politicians are killing the nation financially, but that's on the back burner today because the 25th annual Red,...
New Jersey as Auschwitz?
SEA ISLE, N.J. — Public-sector employees here now are regularly referring to Gov. Chris Christie as "Adolf Christie." Things got especially ugly when Christie signed legislation that requires each...
Reparations Via Crazy Horse Slots
Sea Isle, N.J. — James Fenimore Cooper's historical novel The Last of the Mohicans concludes with Tamenund (1628-98), the tribal leader of an Indian clan in the Delaware Valley,...
ObamaCare: Another Way to Redistribute Income and Wealth
"Under the pretext of 'equalizing burdens' and preventing 'salary discrimination,' Obamacare mandates that insurance premiums must be based on the policyholder's income level — forget the objective value of...
Undercounting the Unemployed
The U.S. job growth in May — or, more accurately, the lack of job growth — indicates that the economic “recovery” is coming undone. ...
Murder, Tulips, and Taxes
Last week, we took the midnight train to Chicago. It's an easy ride, with a bedroom both ways — except I get the top bunk, which feels like I'm...
ObamaCare: Survival of the Well-connected?
Remember when House Speaker Nancy Pelosi got all wound up in March 2010 about the passage of ObamaCare and told the assembled conventioneers at the National Association of Counties...
Swimming in Taxpayers’ Cash
I always thought lifeguard jobs were for cool guys in their twenties. Develop your abs, get tan, pick up chicks in the bars at night and hope for rain...
Government vs. Production
Impose the world's highest corporate income tax rate, and we can expect the result will be too few corporations and too much government. ...
Federal Debt & Upward Redistribution
After doing nothing during his first two years in office to deal with the federal debt tsunami that’s clearly visible on the horizon and heading our way, President Obama...
Two Fries Shy of a Happy Meal
Who would you guess is more likely to sue you, all other things being equal: Monet Parham-Lee or Margie Moore? ...
Obama’s Tax Policy: Rich Can Pay for It All
"The rich can pay for it all. That is Obama's tax policy." That was the morning-after analysis last Thursday by Clive Crook of the "deficit-reduction" speech that President Obama...
Atlas Shrugged Is Coming to the Big Screen
Individualists and money grubbers of the world, unite; you have nothing to lose but your servility and confiscatory tax rates. After all these increasingly collectivized decades, Atlas Shrugged, the...
Bankrupt Buses, Pricey Beer, and Bad Wars
It’s not hard to see how we’re bankrupting ourselves. Not even a rich country can make it through this level of incompetency and corruption. ...
Wrecking a Nation: Oil, Dependency, and Redistribution
Here’s how the economic and political system of a nation is destroyed. ...
Federal Deficits Unsustainable: Do the Math
"So be it." Those three words, uttered by House Speaker John Boehner last week about the prospect of federal work force layoffs, generated a firestorm of anger and anxiety...
Obama’s Two-bit Nod to Capitalism
Attempting to patch things up a bit with the business sector, President Obama began his February 7th speech at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce sounding more like Milton Friedman...