“Logic,” according to the border-fetish crowd: If you don’t approve of pointing a gun in some stranger’s face just because he wanted to step across an imaginary, arbitrary line…
Tag: class
It’s Times Like This That Make Me Love ‘Merica
How cool is it that a guy born in 1890 who built a restaurant chain that sells one of the humblest foods imaginable is honored like royalty? Don’t get me wrong, he was a total baller. He was the closest free-markets get to royalty; someone who created tons of wealth by making other people happy.
How Public Shaming Makes Real Change Harder
As long as we jump straight to public shaming and enemy-labelling, most people won’t have the internal fortitude to take the necessary steps to change. Public shaming should be a last resort when all hope of change is lost.
Heedless Speed
As the Congress declares a radically accelerated time frame for passage of “tax reform,” my suspicion of their hurry grows. Is the objective of more knowledge served by a breakneck pace?
Making the Whole World Idiot-Proof
Not only do busy-body “government” bureaucrats think it’s their job to babysit and control everyone “for their own good,” but most of the peasants seem to agree.
Sorry, Republicans: If You’re Not Cutting Spending, You’re Not Cutting Taxes
Republican “tax reform” theatrics have worn thin over many months of waiting, but I still prefer a more theatrical title. “A tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing” rings true. Four centuries later, Shakespeare’s MacBeth is a better description of the matter than any coming out of Washington, DC.
Master the Concept of Comparative Advantage
What business is it of mine if immigrants to the USA look like middle-class Germans or poor farmers from Chiapas? Did God put me in charge of judging what is good and bad for “the U.S. economy” or for the USA as a whole? Did he put you in charge?
Will the Real Populism Please Stand Up?
Populism is quite easy to define. It is the separation of people into two warring classes. Let’s call them “the righteous masses” and “the power elites.” The populist, of course, sides with the righteous masses. It’s as simple as that. But the devil is in the details of defining those two classes.
Statism’s Foundation
Statism is based on lies. Without lies it evaporates like a single drop of water skittering across the hot surface of a wood stove in January. Not just the classic Orwellian “War is peace” lies, but lies most people don’t even notice.
The Optimal Level of Government Intervention
Neoclassical economists have made many studies of various aspects of what they call “the optimal level of government intervention in the economy.” All of these studies are highly problematic.