Subscribe to feedby Walter Williams -- According to the Tax Policy Center, a Washington, D.C., research organization, nearly half of U.S. households will pay no federal income taxes for 2009. That's up from the more…
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Walter E. Williams, Ph.D., is the John M. Olin Distinguished Professor of Economics at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va. He holds a Doctor of Humane Letters from Virginia Union University and Grove City College, Doctor of Laws from Washington and Jefferson College and Doctor Honoris Causa en Ciencias Sociales from Universidad Francisco Marroquin, in Guatemala, where he is also Professor Honorario.
Minimum-wage cruelty
by Walter Williams -- Which allows an American Samoan worker to have a higher standard of living: being employed at $3.26 per hour or unemployed at a wage scheduled to annually increase more…
Time for an amicable separation
by Walter Williams -- Here's the question asked in my September 2000 column titled "It's time to part company": "If one group of people prefers government control and management of people's lives more…
Beer or wine? How government brings conflict
by Walter Williams -- Different Americans have different and often intense preferences for all kinds of goods and services. Some of us have strong preferences for beer and distaste for wine while more…
Congress' legalized corruption
by Walter Williams -- If there is anything good to say about Democratic control of the White House, Senate and House of Representatives, it's that their extraordinarily brazen, heavy-handed acts have aroused more…
The warmers strike back
by Walter Williams -- Stephen Dinan's Washington Times article "Climate Scientist to Fight Back at Skeptics" (March 5, 2010), tells of a forthcoming campaign that one global warmer said needs to be more…
Why health care is not a right
by Walter Williams -- Most politicians, and probably most Americans, see health care as a right. Thus, whether a person has the means to pay for medical services or not, he is more…
Who's the greater threat – the rich or politicians?
by Walter Williams -- Bill Gates is the world's richest person, but what kind of power does he have over you? Can he force your kid to go to a school you more…
Our climate czar's faith in fraud
by Walter Williams -- Private industry and governments around the world have spent trillions of dollars in the name of saving our planet from manmade global warming. Academic institutions, think tanks and more…
My 1-question census form
by Walter Williams -- The Census Bureau estimates that the life-cycle cost of the 2010 Census will be from $13.7 billion to $14.5 billion, making it the costliest census in the nation's more…