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Daily Archive for December 4th, 2012

This Week’s Sign of the Economic Apocalypse

Posted in Government Gone Wild, Voluntary Society, Welfare State on Dec 4th, 2012

So this is what it now comes down to. We institute a Medicare program in the 1960s that was supposed to cost a fraction of what it does today. When we realize it has bankrupted itself, and possibly the government, we celebrate when its present rate of growth is lower than in the heavily regulated […]

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Raising Taxes on the Rich: A Proposal that Democrats, Republicans and Libertarians Should Support

Posted in Education, Taxation, Voluntary Society, You Can't Have it Both Ways on Dec 4th, 2012

Let’s make this short and sweet, but I think it is probably my most impassioned policy preference among the many that I hold. I, too, support raising taxes on “the rich.” I’ll repeat it, I support raising taxes on the rich. And I support that tax at much lower levels of richness than even the President […]

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