Dr. Mark J. Perry
Labor Gains
American workers have achieved a gold-medal year.
Jobs Outsourcing: Beneficial Trade by Another Name
Outsourcing greatly lowers our cost of consumption, raises our standard of living tremendously and directly supports many jobs.
Consumer, Not Corporate, "Greed" Is Ultimately Behind Layoffs
A business writer at one of Michigan's largest daily newspapers recently denounced corporations, blasting layoffs by "heartless" businesspeople who apparently relish giving out pink slips. But corporations do not act in a vacuum: they are merely responding to the demands of consumers, who by buying or not buying certain products determine which corporations stay in business and which fail.
It's Time to Give Overtaxed Americans a Break
Taxpayers might make louder demands for relief if they understood that as a percentage of total national income, federal taxes are higher than at any other time in U.S. history.
Cost of Government Goes Up While Costs of Living Go Down
Government taxes, spending, and regulation gobble up roughly half of the average American's earnings. Lawmakers must work to rein in Leviathan's out-of-control growth.
Intuition and Good Intentions Are Not Enough to Help Disadvantaged Workers
As counterintuitive as it may seem, the minimum wage harms the very workers whom we want to help-unskilled, inexperienced teenage workers and disadvantaged minorities.
Trying to Define a Foreign-Made Car Will Drive You Crazy
The UAW and other unions routinely urge Michiganians to "buy American," but the growth of the global economy has forever blurred the lines between "foreign made" autos and those "made in the USA."
