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Remembering Dr. Mason Gaffney
On Thursday, July 16, 2020 we lost a great economist and a true trailblazer, Dr. Mason Gaffney, Ph.D. The Robert Schalkenbach Foundation honors a life well lived. We will remember him best for the originality of his thoughts, and the unbridled passion he had for… Read More »Remembering Dr. Mason Gaffney
State and Local Options with the Feds Reneging
With Congress declining to provide them with financial relief, the general expectation is that states will now need to cut their budgets because their respective constitutions require a balance of revenues and expenditures. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has shown no inclination to help. First,… Read More »State and Local Options with the Feds Reneging
Restoration of a Two-Party System
The Republican Party as it was once constituted by certain principles and beliefs has ceased to exist. From the time of its founding by Lincoln in 1854, it had always stood for certain principles and beliefs, even when these changed. The Republican Party was initially… Read More »Restoration of a Two-Party System
A Land Value Tax Can Decrease Residential Crowding, Alleviate Epidemic Disease
It is always a fraught exercise to try to anticipate the overall impact of an event before that event has even concluded, and so it is with COVID 19. However, this has not stopped plenty of people from trying. A growing chorus seems to be… Read More »A Land Value Tax Can Decrease Residential Crowding, Alleviate Epidemic Disease
Rebuilding After Riots
The two weeks after a Minneapolis Police Department officer killed (and three others charged in killing) George Floyd, it feels like the summer of 1914 in fast forward. A single death cascaded into nationwide protests, arson, looting, police attacks on journalists, and then a presidential… Read More »Rebuilding After Riots
Racism and the Land
Some say racism was invented to try to justify displacing one group of people – Native Americans – from the land and enslaving another group of people to work it. Racism may be more complicated than that, but it has been closely connected to land… Read More »Racism and the Land
