Homines libenter quod volunt credunt
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 31st, 2011
I have extremely mixed feelings about the recent Florida district court’s striking down of the Constitutionality of Obamacare. While the child in me, the one who believes that the world actually works the way we want it to work, quietly applauds an apparently thoughtful attempt to remain faithful to the enumerated powers clause, I cannot […]
Posted in Paternalism on Jan 31st, 2011
… the bath salts. I read this as I was trying to take two wimpy Sudafeds. Here is the last entry in the series. If Chuck gets his way, we’ll ban the salts, and then the burnouts will turn to some other household item to snort … and then after that one gets banned, they’ll […]
Posted in Inequality, Methodology on Jan 31st, 2011
The question of the “right amount” of inequality came up in a discussion with a student a few days ago. The student agreed that perfect income equality would be undesirable because theory and experience both show that most of us would end up following the Soviet mantra, “We pretend to work and they pretend to […]
