2020 Candidates Offer New Government Ponzi Schemes
So how has the modern Democrat party built on its proud legacy of such Ponzi schemes like Social Security? By adding new ones.
So how has the modern Democrat party built on its proud legacy of such Ponzi schemes like Social Security? By adding new ones.
The establishment media are still wrong-footed on Brexit. Johnson's hardball approach could be a big win for the UK.
If I were a corporate shill, the last thing I'd want is a free-market, laissez-faire economic system.
Redistribution is not ethical; it’s theft and destruction. It is simply a means to satisfy the envy of some who seek to harm those who have obtained greater wealth through the satisfaction of the wants of consumers.
An estimated 78 percent of the UK’s working population are unable to make ends meet between pay-days. Neo-Keynesian policies are to blame.
Farm subsidies encourage farmers to be inefficient and wasteful. Moreover, subsidies mostly benefit large farms and landowners, and not the "small family farms" we're told the subsidies protect.
Now that they're already rich, the millionaires and billionaires who say "tax me more" are really just trying to become popular by imposing new, harsher rules of the game on everyone.
Mark Thornton reviews Alesina, Favero, and Giavazzi's book, which argues that austerity plans based on tax increases fare much worse than plans based on reducing expenditures.
Government policy encourages homeless people to congregate in public areas twice over: first, cities destroy access to very-low-cost housing. Second, city governments often refuse to enforce their own rules of public-space use. Tent cities result.
To borrow a line from Al Gore, this strikes me as a “risky scheme.”