The Unbroken Window

President Bush proposed a practical health care reform during the annual State of the Union Address. Alas, with health care shaping up to be a major issue in the 2008 Presidential election campaign we do not expect Congress to give it deserved serious consideration.
Government wage controls during World War II induced American employers to […]

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In Taiwan the workers riot when “do-gooders” from the West work hard to reduce working hours. And what right do people have to prevent the poor from improving their condition, regardless of where they live?
See this interview with Michael Strong.

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State Farm is announcing that they are pulling out of the commercial and home-owner insurance markets in Mississippi. Why? They are getting sued and regulated to death. The money quote:
“State Farm, the largest homeowners insurer in Mississippi with more than 30 percent of the market, agreed to settle hundreds of lawsuits by policyholders and reopen […]

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In the progressive/New Deal utopia, we are all wards of the state. Clever technocrats use the coercive power of the state to put all of us into government-run savings and insurance programs. Brad DeLong and others who believe in the technocratic, welfare-state utopia will point to Europe as an example for the U.S. to follow. […]

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I find it a challenge trying to persuade religious conservatives to loosen the relationship between their religious beliefs and their political agenda. However, I find it even more of a challenge to deal with the Left, where their political agenda is their religion.
The purpose of Request for Ideological Comment is to reset the terms of […]

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