The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design. – F.A. Hayek
Posted in Socialism, Unintended Consequences, Welfare State on Aug 11th, 2010
The “common-good” is commonly invoked as a justification for all kinds of confiscatory taxation and subsequent government programs. But in what sense is any program actually working for the “common good?” Wouldn’t making such a claim as a defense of a program require at least two things to be defined? First is, what the heck [...]
Posted in Socialism on Jul 10th, 2010
I am only 5′4″ but still not sure I would go to a party like this. Wouldn’t wearing the massively giant stilts make it even more obvious I was getting a little extra boost? And wouldn’t it take away the only thing that is really unique or interesting about my otherwise dull self?
Posted in Socialism on May 23rd, 2010
Via Greg Mankiw, Guess the Author:
Read the passage. Then click on the link below to learn the author’s identity.
In our own times, a coherent socialist movement is nowhere to be found in the United States. Americans are more likely to speak of a golden past than of a golden future, of capitalism’s glories rather than [...]
Posted in Socialism on May 1st, 2010
On this much celebrated day around the world, I repost my mourning for the hundreds of millions that have been brutally tortured, maimed, and murdered in the name of “the social good” and “brotherhood.” Shame on them.
Mourning on May Day
May 1st, 2008 by wintercow20
It is criminal and immoral to celebrate, on this day, the social [...]
Posted in Socialism on Apr 1st, 2010
Sadly it is no longer en vogue to call the statists among us Communists. That is because they have become a little bit more sophisticated since the disrobing of that horrific monstrosity of a political-economic system roughly 20 years ago. Now, those folks who despise private property, who do not believe that man emerges onto [...]
Posted in Socialism on Mar 8th, 2010
Almost as a passing point in a long and interesting post, Arnold Kling says:
So, we should spend less on medicine and more on….what? Big-screen TV’s? smart phones? professional sports? My guess is that if Callahan got his wish and medical spending were reduced, he would not be happy with where money is spent, and his [...]
Posted in Socialism on Nov 27th, 2009
As part of the Cap and Charade Trade CO2 emissions reduction program, the Administration plans on raising $300 billion between 2011 and 2019 from increasing the tax rates on those whose income exceeds $250,000 per year.
As part of the Health Care Distortion Reform plan, according to the bill passed recently by the House of Representatives, [...]
There are now 637,000 public employees in Michigan compared to fewer than 500,000 workers left in manufacturing.
The rest is worth reading. Progressive heaven!
Posted in Socialism on Oct 13th, 2009
From farmers who care! I just love that. People I never met, trying to engage in commercial activity with me, have to convince me that they care about me. Not just me either, but also the thousands of other people here in the UR community. How do they manage to have so much care in [...]
Posted in Socialism on Sep 9th, 2009
If the news networks played this song before and after tonight’s propogandist plenum. Too bad I didn’t like their sound, I probably would have liked what I heard:
There is unrest in the forest,
There is trouble with the trees,
For the maples want more sunlight
And the oaks ignore their pleas.
The trouble with the maples,
(And they’re quite convinced [...]
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