Posted in ethical foundations, Government Gone Wild, Government Thuggery, Health Care, incentives, Price Controls, Socialism, Taxation, Unintended Consequences, Voluntary Society, Welfare State, You Can't Have it Both Ways on Apr 11th, 2013
I usually hate infographics and here is another one just littered with reasons to go crazy. But focus only on the very bottom: The changes Brill suggests would allow the US to provide better care at lower costs without substituting the kind of government-provider system typical in comparison countries. Holy smokes. This is the previous […]
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Posted in Socialism on Nov 16th, 2012
Here is AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka: In his speech Thursday, Trumka declares that it’s “time to protect” those very programs while raising taxes for the “richest 2 percent.” In any event, I don’t see what Social Security and Medicare have to do with union work issues? What does taxing the rich have to do with […]
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Posted in Socialism on Oct 6th, 2012
People who are just sick of it. You’re invited of course. I look forward to the panel just after it featuring activists, doctors and professionals who are …?
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Here is but one reason I absolutely deplored living in Western Massachusetts. My parents live here so I have to show up every once in a while. But per usual when I was driving in RT7 near downtown on the old circle there were the usual people with signs. The signs were familiar this time: […]
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Posted in Socialism on Jul 21st, 2012
"Through no fault of their own …"
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I no longer go to Catholic mass, yet I typically spend some time on the weekend reflecting on the Church and what has driven me from it. When I was a young kid, I used to read folks like St. Thomas Aquinas as being staunch defenders of private property who respected the sorts of things […]
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Posted in Education, Health Care, Socialism on Dec 14th, 2011
Michael Moore should be paid more and is exploited. I mean it. He has produced a number of misleadingly anti-capitalist documentaries that have become educational darlings. I cannot get my mind around that these are commonly used “educational” tools in high school much less college. But given that he is so popular and that so […]
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The concept of human rights is a particularly appealing one for folks on the left. Invoking human rights in an argument is sort of like insinuating that your opponents don’t think human beings matter. It’s a neat rhetorical trick, and it’s tiring. If a progressive, for example argues for nationalized health care, and I push […]
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Posted in Socialism on Oct 26th, 2011
My friend John B. should really have his own blog! After we’ve taken care of their wealth, to keep the nation happy and prosperous we should pass a law making it illegal for there to be a wealthiest 1 percent — this country should just be the normal 99 percent. Sure, that isn’t mathematically possible, but […]
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Posted in Socialism on Oct 6th, 2011
Via Arnold Kling, this is precisely right: Community and collectivism are opposites. Community is valuable and powerful; it is individuals freely choosing to cooperate and identify with each other to achieve more than they can individually, as we do in the open-source community. Collectivism is a fraud. It pretends to be about community, but it […]
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