30 years ago in reason.

• Position: Citings - Brief article

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"True to form, the November elections elevated those who promised the maximum and spoke truth the minimum."

--Thomas Winslow Hazlett, "Brickbats"

"The fact that most Americans don't know the real price tag for Social Security is what keeps the system afloat."

--Warren J. Shore, "The Great 1979 Social Security Heist"

"The very existence of the FCC, with its oddly anti-democratic compulsion to sanitize the airwaves of the unequal, the unfair, and the impure--the very existence of this federal control commission discourages the idea of assigning keen...