A proposed 2016-2017 resolution for the Stoa league was: The United States federal government should substantially reform one or more of its means-tested benefits programs. NSDA debaters had a similar resolution in 2009, calling for expanding...
Consider the proposed Stoa resolution: The United States federal government should substantially reform its laws governing the rights of employers, employees, and/or labor organizations. There are a great many federal employment regulations prohibiting or...
Agricultural policy reform has been a past debate topic for public school and homeschool students. Food safety policy reform is discussed after agricultural policy. Public Choice economics explains the dynamics of federal agricultural policies:...
In a thoughtful recent debate over reforming the federal court system, students on both sides struggled to address how best to protect people from and “punish” large corporations. The negative explained that without the...
People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. – The Wealth of...
Desperate for economic reforms so China could catch up to the West (and with Hong Kong, Taiwan, SK, and Japan), Chinese government officials since the 1960s have implemented disastrously destructive economic policies. Last fall...
Washing machines are a big deal. Clothes get dirty and require washing. Around the world, women wash clothes and most wash by hand since they lack access to electricity, or to enough electricity to...
Compared to Thailand, the U.S. government spends far less on rice subsidies. According to CBO estimates cited in the Delta Farm Press (April 3, 2015): The Congressional Budget Office estimates that under the previous...
Dan Alban of the Institute for Justice, spoke at the recent Freedom Seminar in Portland, Oregon. Dan debated in high school and at Berry College, so I asked about the NCFCA federal court system...
That same year heavily-armed police raided barber shops around Orlando, Florida; they said they were hunting for guns and drugs but ended up arresting 34 people for “barbering without a licence.” (“Cops or Soldiers,”...
