Tim Kern

Articles

Voters Hate Socialism Except When They Love It

03/03/2009 Mises Daily Tim Kern

No one wanted to hear the message that voting by itself produces nothing, and that force by itself wastes resources and "produces" less and less.

TSA: Killing Us an Hour at a Time

05/29/2006 Mises Daily Tim Kern

Countless articles have chronicled how bad commercial air travel has become since the TSA took over, writes Tim Kern. But it’s even worse than most people think.

A Flood of Folly

12/30/2005 Mises Daily Tim Kern

Economic ignorance rises to the top: that’s Tim Kern’s explanation for FEMA’s continued support of building in flood-prone areas.

Media

Why Socialism is Popular With Voters, Despite Their Intellectual Distaste for It

03/03/2009 Tim Kern

I’ve always been perplexed by the dichotomy that often divides people’s avowed beliefs and their actions. It may be hard to accept the moral and economic evils of socialism, in the abstract, but it’s also hard to vote against it. It turns out to be

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