If At First You Don’t Succeed…

By: Chris Myers (Diary)  |  January 14th at 04:56 PM  | 

Yesterday, I made this suggestion: The federal government should offer income tax breaks for families which purchase or build their own homes on small plots of land. I also said this, just for the record:  [T]his is an idea in (at best) embryonic form right now. And it may be a stupid idea, anyway. But how do I know, unless I toss it out there | Read More »

The “Ownership Society” Redivivus?

By: Chris Myers (Diary)  |  January 13th at 03:18 PM  | 

It is truly a shame that not many conservatives today are familiar with the name “Wilhelm Roepke.” The aforementioned was a Swiss economist who championed a decentralist approach to just about everything (and thus, is my kind of guy). He preferred local government over national, market exchange over state-directed planning, and small business over “monopoly capitalism.” Roepke disdained concentrations of power in favor of a | Read More »