Author: Millard B. Grimes

A 50-years-ago item in the Columbus newspaper noted that in May 1960 the Southern Baptist Convention adopted a resolution urging its members to oppose the nomination of a Catholic for U.S. President. At the time, John F. Kennedy was expected…

The headline in the newspaper had to be wrong. It read “Obama Appears Open to Value Added Tax.” Could the President really be considering a value added tax or VAT, as it is usually referred to? Perhaps, like most Americans,…

Now into the third year of what is being called The Great Recession, the United States still has the largest economy in the world and its people are better off on the whole than the people of any other nation.…

The Obama Administration is beginning to look more like the third George W. Bush term. You think not? Well, look at the facts and forget the frenzied end-of-the world-as-we-know-it outbursts directed at Obama by people who just don’t like him…

The Atlanta Journal’s motto used to be, “Covers Dixie Like the Dew.” But the dew is very light today. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, or AJC, barely covers its own county. Its circulation dropped from 400,000 in 2005 to 330,000 in 2009,…

In the early 1990s I wrote a column for Georgia Trend titled, “The Unfairest Tax of All.” Today it’s much worse. The unfairness is so evident that you would think the talk show hosts and their callers, the chattering classes…

This year is the 75th anniversary of the programs usually referred to as the New Deal, enacted by the Franklin Roosevelt administration to help the U.S. get through the worst economic depression in its history. Was the New Deal the…

In a previous column I mentioned the wild idea that a worldwide minimum wage would be the most logical way to truly create a “flat world” economically. The area of West Georgia and East Alabama provides a dramatic example of…

Actually, the world isn’t flat either topographically or economically. The flat earth theory became popular among multinational business leaders and economists who wanted to eliminate trade barriers and depict the results as good for everyone: rich, poor and middle class.…

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