George Will
George Will
George Frederick Willis an American newspaper columnist and political commentator. He is a Pulitzer Prize–winner known for his conservative commentary on politics. In 1986, The Wall Street Journal called him "perhaps the most powerful journalist in America," in a league with Walter Lippmann...
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth4 May 1941
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Liberals think their campaign against Wal-Mart is a way of introducing the subject of class into America's political argument, and they are more correct than they understand. Their campaign is liberalism as condescension. It is a philosophic repugnance toward markets, because consumer sovereignty results in the masses making messes. Liberals, aghast, see the choices Americans make with their dollars and their ballots and announce - yes, announce - that Americans are sorely in need of more supervision by . . . liberals.
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Corporations do not pay taxes, they collect them, passing the burden to consumers as a cost of production. And corporate taxation is a feast of rent-seeking - a cornucopia of credits, exemptions and other subsidies conferred by the political class on favored, and grateful, corporations.
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Democrats believe, plausibly, that middle-class entitlements are instantly addictive and, because there is no known detoxification, that class, when facing future choices between trimming entitlements or increasing taxes, will choose the latter.
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In the lexicon of the political class, the word 'sacrifice' means that the citizens are supposed to mail even more of their income to Washington so that the political class will not have to sacrifice the pleasure of spending it.
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India has an increasingly well-funded middle class. Imagine a market of 100 million to 150 million people all able to consume.
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Once in a while, every few decades, a real prize class comes along, and that was these kids.
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I'm not sure what we're going to do now, ... The thing we do know is the students are coming. Classes are going to be more crowded.
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I've gone to school and classes since I have been on the fire department for the past five years and finally get a chance to utilize my skills and help other people. I am trying to give back I guess.
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The large funds are long metals of every class and there's been general selling today, which touched off stop-loss orders below the market.
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It treats state-approved training programs such as ours as second-class citizens,
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When I teach classes at the School of Visual Arts,, I'll ask the students, 'How many of you have been to a museum this year?' Nobody raises their hand and I go into a tirade. If you want to do something sharp and innovative, you have to know what went on before.
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This class of writers comes most into contact with the barristers, because almost the exclusive occupation of the latter is to conduct litigation.
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Do you remember shouting at me in the Commons in the 1970s that you weren't having the likes of me breaking up Britain and destroying the working class through a Scots parliament. You are in a Scots parliament. What happened?
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During the course of a year I work with a lot of different Indian musicians, often in situations where I'm playing more of a classical Indian performance, ... At the same time, as a writer and composer I'm trying to figure out how to bring in some of the abstraction that exists in jazz.