Check out James Taranto’s “Great Moments in Socialized Medicine” Great Moments in Socialized Medicine The Montreal Gazette reports from a “thinkers’ conference” held by Canada’s opposition Liberal Party: In a morning session on health care the conference was told that Canadians and their governments must face up to some hard facts and have “an adult […]
Daily Archive for March 29th, 2010
Update on Enforcement of the Mandate
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 29th, 2010
Earlier I reported that the new health care bill planned to hire a slew of IRS agents to police the mandate. That they are hiring the agents is still true, but check this out: How much tax would you pay on April 15 if the IRS couldn’t levy on your bank account, slap you with […]
Economic Aphorisms – Monopoly Myths
Posted in Education, You Can't Have it Both Ways on Mar 29th, 2010
Perhaps the most common anti-capitalist and anti-free-market canard is the unproved claim that we can never allow free markets to proceed without regulation and oversight. Why? If we allow free markets, the claim goes, in each and every industry giant firms will prevail in the competition for customers, leaving few or only one firm in […]
