Why force us to subsidize other people’s parties?
October 2, 2016
If you live near a college campus—especially if you have occasion to drive by at midnight on a weekend—it’s clear that there’s a lot of eating out, a lot of drinking, and a lot of whatever else goes along with those things. There is no good reason to force us to subsidize this.
End Federal Student ‘Aid’
July 25, 2013
Remember, college costs so much in the first place precisely because the federal government keeps subsidizing increasing tuition. (Thanks for nothing, federal government.)
End federal student “aid”. Stop turning people like me into debt slaves.
Reason has a pretty good piece on this: “Easy Credit Is Inflating a Massive Student-Loan Bubble”, Steven Greenhut.
Separation of School and State
June 15, 2011
During my last semester of law school, we read an interesting case for Corporations class, A. P. Smith Mfg. Co. vs. Barlow, 13 N.J. 145, 98 A.2d 581. In this 1953 decision by the New Jersey supreme court, the question (basically) was whether the corporation was allowed to donate money to charity, or whether donating would be an illegal waste of the shareholders’ money. I won’t bore you with the legal details (the court found that the corporation was allowed to make such donations), but listen to some of the testimony in the case: Read the rest of this entry »
Enjoyment and Contemplation 