Homines libenter quod volunt credunt
Posted in Politics on Feb 22nd, 2011
In this installment, I offer up for our governments a simple economic lesson in the incentive effects of taxation. It is well understood that taxes distort economic activity by driving a wedge between the value consumers would be able to obtain from a good and the cost that producers incur to make a good (maybe […]
Posted in Government Thuggery on Feb 18th, 2011
David Henderson points us to this. Here is the story as Henderson tells it: On Tuesday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton gave a speech at George Washington University in which she criticized foreign governments for cracking down on freedom of speech. In her audience was a retired CIA official, Ray McGovern, who quietly turned his […]
Posted in Socialism on Feb 18th, 2011
Let’s cast aside the issue of coercion, property rights and even some good economics and focus on a somewhat different major distinction between a free society and the modern constructivist notions of the “good” society. That difference is in what the goals and objectives of such a “society” ought to be. The major distinction between […]
Posted in Government Gone Wild on Feb 1st, 2011
Here is a threat from our government to America’s Insurance Plans fro discussing the impact of ObamaCare on their premiums: To combat this reality, the Obama administration struck back last Friday. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius sent a letter to America’s Health Insurance Plans warning them that “there will be zero tolerance” for […]
Posted in Government Gone Wild on Jan 24th, 2011
HT to Nelson Furlano. Three local chapters of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), whose political action committee spent $27 million supporting Barack Obama in the 2008 presidential election, have received temporary waivers from a provision in the Obamacare law. … HHS gave a waiver to Local 25 SEIU in Chicago with 31,000 enrollees on Oct. 1, […]