Walter E. Williams Column: Devious Taxation
The Washington, D.C.-based Tax Foundation does a yeoman's job of keeping track of how much we're paying in taxes and who's paying what. It turns out that American taxpayers worked this year from Jan....
View ArticleWalter Williams Column: Liberty-loving Patriots Have a Duty to Disobey...
Let's think about whether all acts of Congress deserve our respect and obedience. Suppose Congress enacted a law — and the Supreme Court ruled it constitutional — requiring American families to attend...
View ArticleWalter Williams Column: Should Black People Tolerate This?
Each year, roughly 7,000 blacks are murdered. Ninety-four percent of the time, the murderer is another black person. According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, between 1976 and 2011, there were...
View ArticleWalter E. Williams Column: We're Destroying Our Republic with Reckless...
Our nation is rapidly approaching a point from which there's little chance to avoid a financial collapse. The heart of our problem can be seen as a tragedy of the commons. That's a set of...
View ArticleWalter Williams Column: Immoral Beyond Redemption
Benjamin Franklin, statesman and signer of our Declaration of Independence, said: "Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of...
View ArticleWalter E. Williams Column: For Too Long, Americans Have Been Duped by...
Some of the responses to my column last week, titled "Immoral Beyond Redemption," prove that Americans have been hoodwinked by Congress. Some readers protested my counting Social Security among...
View ArticleWalter E. Williams Column: Racial Double Standards
Back in 2009, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said we were "a nation of cowards" on matters of race. Permit me to be brave and run a few assertions by you just to see whether we're on the same page....
View ArticleWalter E. Williams Column: Some Difficult Economics Lessons
One of the more difficult lessons to teach economics neophytes — and, many times, trained economists — is that economic theory cannot say anything definitive about subjective statements, such as...
View ArticleWilliams Column: Tyrants and Human Nature
The agendas of liberals, progressives and assorted tyrants desperately depend on the aspects of human nature they often condemn, such as acquisitiveness, profit motive, self-interestedness and greed....
View ArticleWalter Williams Column: Obama's Educational Excellence Initiative
President Barack Obama recently wrote an executive order that established a White House initiative on educational excellence for black Americans that will be housed in the Department of Education. It...
View ArticleWalter E. Williams: The Rich Don't Pay Enough?
If you listen to America's political hacks, mainstream media talking heads and their socialist allies, you can't help but reach the conclusion that the nation's tax burden is borne by the poor and...
View ArticleWalter Williams Column: How Government Regulation Is a Barrier to Upward...
Let's pretend that we have the political guts to expand economic opportunities for people at the lower end of the economic spectrum. What vested interests should be attacked, and what economic...
View ArticleWalter E. Williams: Congressional GOP Don't Have the Political Guts to Stand...
Within the past decade, I've written columns titled "Deception 101," "Stubborn Ignorance" and "Exploiting Public Ignorance," all explaining which branch of the federal government has taxing and...
View ArticleWalter E. Williams Column: Understanding Economics
Here's a question: If there's a disaster, a war, a severe drought or some other calamity that restricts future supplies of a commodity — such as oil, coffee or corn — what is the intelligent thing for...
View ArticleWalter Williams Column: 'Trickle-Down' Attack on Tax Cuts Is, Always Has Been...
Dr. Thomas Sowell's "'Trickle Down Theory' and 'Tax Cuts for the Rich'" has just been published by the Hoover Institution. Having read this short paper, the conclusion you must reach is that the term...
View ArticleWalter Williams Column: Our Deviant Society
Here's one usage of the term gentleman: The gentleman helped the fallen lady to her feet. Here's another, one we might hear from a newscaster or a police spokesman: Tonight we report on the arrest of...
View ArticleWalter E. Williams Column: Disaster Ignorance
Here's a which-is-better question for you. Suppose a New Jersey motel room rented for $125 a night prior to Hurricane Sandy's devastation. When the hurricane hits, a husband, wife and their two...
View ArticleWalter E. Williams Column: Democracy and Majority Rule Are Overrated
President Barack Obama narrowly defeated Gov. Mitt Romney in the popular vote 51 percent to 48 percent. In the all-important Electoral College, the difference was larger, with Obama winning 303...
View ArticleWalter E. Williams Column: The Secession Craze Isn't Crazy, Parting Company...
For decades, it has been obvious that there are irreconcilable differences between Americans who want to control the lives of others and those who wish to be left alone. Which is the more peaceful...
View ArticleWalter E. Williams Column: Our Financial Crisis Is Government-Created
Suppose you saw a building on fire. Would you seek counsel from the arsonist who set it ablaze for advice on how to put it out? You say, "Williams, you'd have to be a lunatic to do that!" But that's...
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