December 2004 
But, thou Bethlehem . . . —December 2004(Comments Off)
Thomas Fleming on displacement, Fr. Hugh Barbour on the only blessing left, John Francis Nieto on Dante, and Fr. Alister Anderson on Southern theology. Plus, David Hartman on taxation, and a short story by Anthony Bukoski.
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Taxation for Economic Survival: The Business Transfer Tax
The severity of the ongoing decline of U.S. manufacturing has placed our prosperity and national security in jeopardy. A principal cause of this crisis is the federal tax code, which currently imposes multiple layers of progressive taxation on U.S. goods.
The Plight of the Homeless
In one of Douglas Adams’ very silly books, Zaphod Beeblebrox, the egocentric two-headed president of the universe, is condemned to undergo the ordeal of the Total Perspective Vortex. It is an excruciating form of torture that exposes the criminal to a sense of the infinite size of the universe and his own small place in it.