I Am Tired Of The Constant Demonizing

Donating Money To A Few Of My Favorite Free-market Organizations Used To Be A Pleasant Duty, But Now I'm Literally Inundated With Demands From Hundreds Of Think Tanks And Public-policy Groups, All Vying For My Limited Funds

One Suggestion My Wife And I Have Used In Our Personal Finance Courses We Teach At College Is Simply Writing Down All Expenditures And Seeing Where The Money Goes. That Alone Will Cause Heads Of Households To Think Twice About X, Y Or Z Expenditure, And To Consider Carefully Whether They Really Need Something Or Not.

Here In America, Government Began As A Tool To Assure Freedom. It Gradually Turned Into A Hideously Expensive Political Toy Designed To Redistribute Your Wealth And Control Most Aspects Of Your Business And Private Life.

In The Early 1980s, I Burned My Social Security Card At The New Orleans Investment Conference In Protest Of The State Pension System.

I Only Have Disdain For New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. He Raised Taxes And Has Increased Regulations. What Else Is New? He's A Bully Who Wants To Micro-manage People's Lives By Mandate, Not Persuasion.