Jeff Jacoby
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Will making community college free make it better? The Boston Globe July 28, 2024
Happy about your IRS refund? Don't be. The Boston Globe April 17, 2024
Defying the Supreme Court on student loans, Biden sets a dangerous precedent The Boston Globe April 14, 2024
As the deficit soars, Biden boasts that he has cut the deficit The Boston Globe September 17, 2023
The earmarks in the budget go 'oink-oink-oink' Arguable June 6, 2023
There is no '14th Amendment option' to raise the debt ceiling The Boston Globe May 24, 2023
Republicans passed a debt-limit bill. What are Democrats waiting for? The Boston Globe May 8, 2023
Don't give up Twitter, NPR. Give up your subsidy. Arguable April 18, 2023
As Social Security races toward a cliff, both parties refuse to act The Boston Globe February 15, 2023
Patton's prayer Arguable December 6, 2022
Congress can attack inflation — if it chooses to The Boston Globe November 30, 2022
The taming of income inequality The Boston Globe November 15, 2022
Congress sued to block Trump's illegal spending. Now it should sue to block Biden's The Boston Globe September 11, 2022
Canceling student debt will make things worse The Boston Globe May 1, 2022
The inflation hawks have been right all along The Boston Globe November 17, 2021
A free press doesn't take government handouts The Boston Globe October 24, 2021
It isn't tax cuts that are driving federal deficits The Boston Globe October 20, 2021
As Washington debates the debt limit, the hypocrisy is at flood tide The Boston Globe September 26, 2021
Harry Truman conned us all The Boston Globe July 28, 2021
No ministry of culture, please, we're American The Boston Globe July 25, 2021
Beacon Hill, hoarding billions in surplus dollars, won't give taxpayers a break The Boston Globe July 14, 2021
This is no time to bring back earmarks The Boston Globe March 21, 2021
Billionaires and multimillionaires don't need a government pension The Boston Globe January 27, 2021
A student debt bailout would be unjust and unwise The Boston Globe November 22, 2020
Were California voters confused? Arguable November 9, 2020
In the race for the White House, it's protectionist vs. protectionist The Boston Globe July 15, 2020
Politicians are only human The Boston Globe January 5, 2020
What are the odds of ending lottery advertising? Arguable December 9, 2019
Where's the clamor over our disastrous national debt? The Boston Globe September 22, 2019
With the market making parental leave routine, who needs Congress? The Boston Globe June 2, 2019
Special Olympics can soar on its own The Boston Globe April 3, 2019
The government shutdown was expected to damage the economy. It didn't. The Boston Globe February 6, 2019
Short live the Legislature! The Boston Globe August 12, 2018
The Tea Party, RIP The Boston Globe February 14, 2018
Bribes — er, incentives — for Amazon The Boston Globe September 13, 2017
At the Berkshire Museum, a display of backbone The Boston Globe July 30, 2017
Deliver us from Scripture-citers The Boston Globe March 26, 2017
Scrap the NEA, and America's arts scene will thrive The Boston Globe March 1, 2017
Like a fish needs a treadmill The Boston Globe January 15, 2017
Israel doesn't need American foreign aid The Boston Globe September 4, 2016
Making college 'free' will only make it worse The Boston Globe July 13, 2016
Killing us softly with overregulation The Boston Globe May 11, 2016
GE, Massachusetts, and the corruption of crony capitalism The Boston Globe January 20, 2016
The weakest economic recovery in modern times The Boston Globe January 7, 2016
'Sesame Street' moves to HBO, and everyone wins The Boston Globe August 19, 2015
Free Roxbury with free enterprise The Boston Globe June 14, 2015
Millionaire ex-presidents can pay their own way The Boston Globe May 24, 2015
No wonder voters like a candidate who knows how to castrate hogs The Boston Globe November 2, 2014
They're so vain, they probably think this bridge is about them The Boston Globe August 2, 2014
Dissenters in a one-party statehouse The Boston Globe July 6, 2014
Public-sector pensions are eating taxpayers alive The Boston Globe March 23, 2014
The problem is the debt, not the debt ceiling The Boston Globe October 16, 2013
Washington booms – thanks to other people's money The Boston Globe June 5, 2013
Yes, slash farm subsidies — but don't stop there The Boston Globe November 25, 2012
The government's college money pit The Boston Globe April 29, 2012
Romney, Republicans, and the young The Boston Globe March 25, 2012
Memo to Washington: Kick the spending habit The Boston Globe November 20, 2011
Uncle Sam's IOUs can't save Social Security The Boston Globe September 7, 2011
Tea Partiers sound an urgent alarm The Boston Globe August 14, 2011
Slash spending and the economy will bloom The Boston Globe June 8, 2011
The debt-ceiling scaremongers The Boston Globe May 4, 2011
The myth of 'Herbert Hoover economics' The Boston Globe April 13, 2011
The convention-center follies The Boston Globe March 23, 2011
What NPR needs is a little tough love The Boston Globe March 13, 2011
Separation of Jesus and Congress The Boston Globe March 6, 2011
No subsidy for NPR The Boston Globe November 24, 2010
Europe says no to deficit-spending 'stimulus' The Boston Globe November 3, 2010
Yes on 3: Four reasons to roll back the sales tax The Boston Globe October 24, 2010
What public-sector unions have wrought Commentary October 2010
'Clunkers' was a classic government folly The Boston Globe September 1, 2010
Let the private sector fund stem-cell research The Boston Globe August 29, 2010
Does the press deserve a bailout? The Boston Globe July 20, 2010
Paying the price for a UMass law school The Boston Globe February 7, 2010
Public-sector pay, private-sector backlash The Boston Globe January 27, 2010
Economics 101: How little they really know The Boston Globe December 16, 2009
The myth of the underpaid public employee The Boston Globe September 30, 2009
Clunker Q&A The Boston Globe August 26, 2009
The pension wolves The Boston Globe April 1, 2009
Money for nothing won't grow the economy The Boston Globe February 1, 2009
An over-optimistic stimulus plan The Boston Globe January 28, 2009
Better than a bailout The Boston Globe December 14, 2008
The great Bush 'deregulation' myth The Boston Globe November 19, 2008
It's time for a 'blunt budget ax' The Boston Globe October 5, 2008
What, them worry? The Boston Globe August 6, 2008
Are we angry enough to fight back? The Boston Globe July 20, 2008
Remember, there's no free lunch The Boston Globe January 23, 2008
Driving up the cost of college The Boston Globe February 10, 2005
The most bloated budget ever The Boston Globe February 5, 2004
A 'beached whale' for South Boston The Boston Globe November 1, 1999
The grand old spending party The Boston Globe August 26, 1999
PBS can fly on its own The Boston Globe July 22, 1999
The right way to subsidize artists The Boston Globe May 27, 1999
No pork for the Patriots The Boston Globe April 22, 1999
The tobacco money should go to the taxpayers The Boston Globe April 12, 1999
Serious artists don't need the NEA The Boston Globe March 4, 1999
Give the tobacco windfall back to the taxpayers The Boston Globe December 10, 1998
Boston's 'lost' conventions The Boston Globe July 27, 1998
Clinton's other whopper The Boston Globe February 3, 1998
Lower deficit, bigger government The Boston Globe October 30, 1997
Despite its promises, the NEA remains unchanged The Boston Globe August 21, 1997
Bush laid the ground for budget deal? Nonsense The Boston Globe August 12, 1997
Raises for Finneran's pals, but no relief for taxpayers The Boston Globe July 8, 1997
The Framers would have voted to abolish the NEA The Boston Globe July 3, 1997
Art without the NEA The Boston Globe April 15, 1997
A commercial jewel in PBS's crown The Boston Globe February 13, 1997
Education inflation The Boston Globe February 6, 1997
Imagine, a candidacy based on principle The Boston Globe October 8, 1996
Germans face big bills for decades of social spending The Boston Globe July 2, 1996
The flag in the toilet The Boston Globe May 21, 1996
Let's end corporate welfare as we know it The Boston Globe March 12, 1996
The shutdown has me worried sick The Boston Globe November 16, 1995
Macworld's lesson for the megaplex debate The Boston Globe August 10, 1995
Targeting the pay raisers The Boston Globe August 1, 1995
Arts money for arts insiders The Boston Globe July 25, 1995
What Jesse Helms should have said The Boston Globe July 11, 1995
The sorry state of state colleges The Boston Globe June 20, 1995
The government's assault on higher education The Boston Globe June 1, 1995
Freedom is the loser with a government-run 'megaplex' The Boston Globe May 25, 1995
How the NEA pollutes American culture The Boston Globe January 24, 1995
How to fix Social Security The Boston Globe December 22, 1994
Convention wisdom The Boston Globe December 13, 1994
From Foxboro, foul play on the taxpayers The Boston Globe March 3, 1994

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