Interventionism
A new tactic for the Think Globally, Act Locally crowd
The Chicago Tribune and The Columbus Dispatch are reporting a Washington Post story on the federal push to make the polar bear the first mammal to
Fallacies of the Negative Income Tax
Trick names of this sort corrupt the language and confuse thought. It would hardly clarify matters to call a handout a 'negative deprivation' or having your pocket picked 'receiving a negative gift.
Trans fats, cold medicines, and real freedom
Jeff Tucker’s cold medicine post got me thinking.
Patent Attorney Admission
I pointed out in There’s No Such Thing as a Free Patent that “The conventional defense of the
Paying for Goodman’s Sports Fetish
Wealthy team owners and their wealthy employees will be the only winners if the new arena idea moves forward.
The losers, once again, would be taxpayers.
Pump and Dump Economy
An excellent piece by Michael Malone in the WSJ today (thanks S. Berger):
Is High School Football a Public Good?
Public goods are a cover for coercion, and public high school football is a private good funded by someone else's tax bill. Don't believe otherwise.