Homines libenter quod volunt credunt
Posted in Welfare State on Feb 25th, 2012
David Brooks makes a point I’ve been screaming about for years: When you include both direct spending and tax expenditures, the U.S. has one of the biggest welfare states in the world. We rank behind Sweden and ahead of Italy, Austria, the Netherlands, Denmark, Finland and Canada. Social spending in the U.S.is far above the organization’s average In […]
Posted in Economic Illiteracy on Feb 25th, 2012
What, exactly, does “Food Democracy” mean anyway? When I am up for another rant I may actually go sentence by sentence through the linked story. In the meantime, let me offer up a piece of advice to the people who want to Occupy My Dinner Table: try capitalism. You don’t like it that a few […]
Posted in Methodology on Feb 25th, 2012
Makes sense when Richard Epstein is discussing the Rule of Law. But have a look at this: a crowdsourced effort to look at all of the factors that influence climate. The point is NOT that humans and CO2 cannot and have not had an effect, quite the contrary.
