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 Health Care, Voluntary Society, Welfare State on May 10th, 2013
Without much comment, I suggest you read the interview Wonkblog does with the patient. The entire tone, the selection of the interview candidate, the questions not asked, etc. encapsulates almost everything that can possibly be wrong with (insert noun here). If I were a betting person, I might even bet that the interview was made [...]
Posted in Classical Liberalism, Methodology, Welfare State, You Can't Have it Both Ways on Apr 16th, 2013
As I grow crankier, I am seeing myself disagreeing more with the thoughtful left. I am somewhat surprised by this as I had always assumed the opposite would happen. For today’s edition let me excerpt from a lefty website that I quite enjoy reading despite its regular ad-hominem bashing and mischaracterization of views different than [...]
Posted in Health Care, Politics, Taxation, Welfare State, You Can't Have it Both Ways on Apr 12th, 2013
The town and county portion of my property tax receipt came in the mail today. (This comprises about 1/3 of my total property tax bill – the government schools take the other 2/3). I found their new itemization of uses of tax funds to be interesting. Years ago I noticed that in my TOWN offices, [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Behavior, Classical Liberalism, Voluntary Society, Welfare State on Feb 20th, 2013
“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool.” Thus says the great physicist Richard Feynman. I’ve been trying to wrap my head around both the rhetoric and sentiments of the “Progressives” that live around us. And I do think I am onto something. I’ve talked [...]
Posted in Flotsam and Jetsam, Religion, Voluntary Society, Welfare State on Feb 5th, 2013
Without comment, else it might be my last. (1) Climate change is going to so devastate Rochester that it will as intolerable as living in … Richmond, VA. Go see the movie. (2) Handed out at a nearby Catholic parish, remember that we used to pass a basket around a second time during mass to [...]
Posted in Central Planning, Government Gone Wild, Welfare State, You Can't Have it Both Ways on Jan 17th, 2013
So let’s get this straight, American roads, bridges and tunnels are crumbling – so says our President and others. So let’s get this straight, American cities water and sanitation systems are dangerous and falling apart. So let’s gets this straight, now we learn that over half-a-decade after Katrina that levees are in serious disrepair all [...]
Posted in Classical Liberalism, Politics, Welfare State on Dec 22nd, 2012
They seem more depressed than I am. My thoughts coming soon. But this’ll surely cheer you up on this snowy cold night … There are many factors, Mrs. B. theorizes. A world of kids with lousy job opportunities, higher taxes, decreasing incomes, the horrors of Newtown, unemployment, the election, etc. She is quite shrewd about politics. From a [...]
Posted in ethical foundations, Extended Order, Price System, Property Rights, Voluntary Society, Welfare State, You Can't Have it Both Ways on Dec 11th, 2012
A popular sentiment regarding health care is that unlike other goods, we simply cannot tolerate differences in consumption based on income differences. Having a rich guy with a 90-inch plasma TV as compared to a poor guy suffering with a 36″ cathode-ray tube TV is not nearly as intolerable as the idea that if both [...]
Posted in Welfare State on Dec 10th, 2012
Dog bites man.
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