Tag: economics
Is “sorta-Socialist” a sustainable model for American Governance?
Once it became okay for politicians to promise distributions to individuals from the public treasury, politicians were provided a "license" to purchase...
Inoculate your kids against Marxist lies.
Americans are
expressing greater acceptance of socialism, if recent polls reported by Forbes,
Fox and others are accurate.
The Left's...
Who is Greedy? It’s NOT Who You Think…
Milton Friedman once told Phil Donahue (and I am paraphrasing - the direct quote is in the link), "Nobody is greedy. Just ask them. ...
Debt, Deficits, and Economic Growth: A Primer
The biggest mistake the voting public ever makes is to ask the government to ‘do something’ about problems the government is powerless to solve....
Taxation: The Price of Failing to Build a Civilized Society
For libertarians taxation is theft.
For statists taxation is deft.
Deft? Yes:
“The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to procure the largest...
The Post-Keynesian Religion
I had an interesting debate on Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) with several MMT adherents recently, and as the debate progressed, I was told, over...
Lessons from Milton Friedman: Free to Choose!
"Narrow preoccupation with the economic market has led to a narrow interpretation of self-interest as myopic selfishness, as exclusive concern with immediate material rewards....
Time and Values
Patrick Henry once said, "Give me Liberty, or give me death," and there was a time when this was the prevailing vision of our...