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...yourself in the shoes of an observant Christian student taking Statistics 100, “Introduction to Quantitative Methods.” Today is Good Friday, and you had hoped to spend the day at home worshiping with your family and friends. But you have a midterm, and so you are instead sitting in your dining hall reading the paper as a distraction from trying to memorize the details of population means. According to Massachusetts state law, students who are unable to attend class or participate in an examination due to religious observance must be excused without penalty and provided...
...this hand-wringing—instinctive aversion to filthy lucre—campaign finance reform is quixotic and probably unnecessary. The only way to actually take money out of politics is to take power out of Washington: If there is less government power to buy, people will spend less money trying...
Moreover, as many have noted, if money does buy victory, Americans are selling their votes on the cheap. The total spending on the next presidential election is expected to exceed a billion dollars, but, in comparison, Americans will spend $10 billion on pornography next year. These figures either reflect the absurd ease of buying political success, or (more likely) the minimal impact of donations on election results...
Previous campaign reforms have failed not because they lack a magic ingredient, some legislative abracadabra, but because as long as the government wields extensive power to tax, spend, and regulate, interest groups will try to influence its actions. It’s not clear what proportion of campaign contributions are motivated by such rent-seeking (and therefore whether this is really a big problem), but unless we eviscerate the First Amendment or shrink the government, money is here to stay...
...This article contains a table. Please see hardcopy of magazine.] WHO SPENDS MORE MONEY? Although single women splurge on a few items, single men spend more money overall Men Women Car ownership $2,000 $1,154 Eating out 1,847 1,095 Entertainment 1,459 1,075 Clothes and related services 823 1,069 Audio and visual equipment 632 489 Personal-care products 196 458 Alcoholic beverages 501 221 Tobacco and smoking...