In health care, and all fields, it’s better to see what competition can do rather than letting the government and its cronies decide what to allow.
POLITICS
Judging Elizabeth Warren’s Health Care Plan
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., wants “Medicare for All,” as does Sen. Bernie Sanders, D-Vt., her self-described “Democratic socialist” rival. Unlike Sanders, however, Warren claims she can finance her plan by raising taxes only on the...
Third Party Payments: One Problem With the U.S. Medical Care System
The pursuit of one form or another of third-party payment for health care services has removed most incentives for consumers to be careful about how they spend money.
What Michelle Obama Evades About ‘White Flight’
What about violent black-white interracial crime? According to the FBI’s Bureau of Justice Statistics, in 2018, there were about 600,000 such instances. In 90% of them, the perpetrator was black, the victim white.
The Problem with the Wealth Tax
A Note on Asset Prices, Wealth, and Inequality
Reality Stands in the Way of Socialist Healthcare Fantasies
Ask every politician promising to take over your medical care what they are doing for the veterans now in their care, or for those veterans who have died while languishing on lists while waiting for it.
Statistical Disparities Do Not Prove Discrimination
Statistical disparities do not prove discrimination.
The Meaning of the Berlin Wall
On this 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, we should remember all that it represented as a symbol of tyranny under which the individual was marked with the label: property of the state.
Democrats Against Illegal Immigration
Take the ‘Racist Xenophobe’ Quiz!
Government Spending is the Real Tax
Milton Friedman made the observation that the true size of government is measured not by how much it rakes in currently in taxes by how much it spends.
The Case Against Immigration Quotas
If quotas on immigration are an essential tool for protecting us Americans from being terrorized on our own soil, why do we still have no quotas on foreigners who come to America as visitors? Must someone be a resident of the U.S. in order to unleash terror in America?
Max Weber on Politics as a Vocation
Appreciating Weber’s definition of the State and his analysis of all those desiring to live for the state as a means of living off the state at the expense of others in society, should be taken as a guide book for thinking twice before one believes and supports any of…
Capitalism: The Whipping Boy of Leftists
Capitalism is truly the pro-human social system superior to its alternatives.
Democrat Presidential Debate: 10 Tough Questions CNN/ NY Times “Forgot” To Ask
Here are 10 questions that CNN/NY Times moderators failed to ask…
The Dirty Secret Behind Elizabeth Warren’s Medicare-For-All
Elizabeth Warren has vehemently refused to say if the middle class would see its taxes go up to pay for M4A or how she would pay for this.
Book Review: The Invention of the Passport
How and why governments have used the power of issuing official travel documents as a means of restricting the free movement of people during the last 200 years.
We Should Want More Billionaires Not Less
Economic prosperity is not achieved by taxing the “rich”—such as the plans to wipe out billionaires—and giving some of their wealth to those who have been less productive and therefore have less wealth.
The U.S. Welfare System’s Paternalistic History
“We should measure welfare’s success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added.”
Turning Point: The Democrat Stranglehold on Black Americans is Ending
“Your success as a family, our success as a society, depends not on what happens in the White House, but on what happens inside your house.”
Impeaching Trump, Greta Thunberg and Faith in the Status Quo
The new religionists tout environmentalism, feminism, multiculturalism, and welfare statism.
Stossel Interviews Democratic Presidential Candidate Rep. Tulsi Gabbard
Democratic presidential candidate Rep. Tulsi Gabbard is controversial within her party. She says the U.S. should talk to its enemies. She was criticized for meeting with Syrian dictator Bashar Assad. But Democrats were supposed to be the anti-war party, I say to her...
How Trump Raised Your Taxes
The 2018 tariffs imposed by President Trump on imports from China and other countries had already resulted in the direct transfer of tens of billions of dollars from U.S. businesses to government coffers.
The Democrats Who Cried ‘Impeach!’
Trump, post-impeachment, can credibly call himself a victim of a political vendetta and ride that narrative to victory in 2020.
Peddling Victimhood: Who Cares About You?
Are white people obsessed with and engaged in a conspiracy against black people?
My Life as an Austrian Economist and a Classical Liberal
Ayn Rand’s writings brought about an ethical and practical revolution in my thinking
Elizabeth Warren’s “Accountable Capitalism” Is More Dangerous Than Bernie Sander’s “Democratic Socialism”
I’d take whatever Sanders calls socialism over accountable capitalism any day, because rather than starve the dynamic private sector of resources, Warren’s vision stifles the dynamism itself.
History of the Monopolization of Welfare by the State
Throughout the 19th century, a primary means for the provision of what today we call the “social safety nets” was by the private sector outside of government.
A Free Market for Labor
Keep government out of labor markets, so long as people stick to their contracts and refrain from violence.
If Trump’s ‘Bigotry’ Is an Impeachable Offense, Why Did Obama Get a Pass?
Let’s examine these killers’ motives and means so we can reduce the possibility of more such shootings and reduce their lethality. But blaming Trump is lazy, dishonest and bigoted.
“L’etat C’est Moi”: The Presidency of Donald Trump
It was French king Louis XIV who declared, “L’etat c’est moi” (“I am the state”), indicating his insistence that he possessed absolute power over his subjects. This attitude is shared by Donald Trump, president of the United States.
Communist China, The Trump Presidency and The Democrat Totalitarian Threat
However vulgar, nationalistic and anti-capitalist is Trump’s presidency, he’s looking better than the alternative, each of whom shares the same moral premise and economic ideal as China.
Directive 10-289: A Chilling Directive
Our modern civilization is on a trajectory that will lead to a very dark place. History provides examples of what can happen. We refer to the period 1929-1945, and course to 476AD. If the monetary system is not changed, 476AD is where we will end. The raison d’etre of...
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