The “untouchable” entitlement programs at the heart of the current debt crisis are the outgrowths of the redistributive programs introduced by or greatly expanded during the presidency of Lyndon Johnson.
POLITICS
America’s New ‘Red Scare,’ Unlike the Old One, is Fake
The political left in America is conveniently a half-century late; in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s the Russian threat was real and the ‘Red Scare’ justified; the latest scare is fake, an excuse by the left to explain its electoral failure
Drowning at the FDA
New legislation would throw a lifeline to individual terminally ill patients, giving them the “right to try” treatments that have been deemed safe by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) but which have not yet obtained final approval.
The Trump Tariff is Really a Gigantic Tax on American Consumers
A tariff is essentially a tax that will be paid by domestic consumers.
“Under capitalism, who would regulate us?”
To most people, the idea of capitalism, where government’s only role is to protect its citizens’ individual rights against those who initiate physical force and fraud, is shockingly novel (and therefore, often suspect).
Race and Sports: It’s Not 1947 Anymore. Let’s Not Pretend That It Is
Because of pioneers like Jackie Robinson, we can now pretty much sit back and just watch a good game. Politics can wait a few hours.
Is Obamacare Harming Quality? (Part 1)
While the Affordable Care Act (ACA) promises “quality health insurance coverage for all Americans,” a potential tradeoff exists between the law’s dual goals of promoting quality and preventing insurance companies from denying coverage or charging higher premiums to patients with preexisting conditions.
How To Ensure Quality Health Coverage (Part 2)
Why providing sick patients secure access to quality health care requires allowing consumers to purchase health plans not subject to Obamacare’s preexisting conditions provisions.
The Debt Ceiling Hysteria and Profligate Government
The Crisis is Not Debt Default, But Too Much Government Spending
Delusions of Conservatives for Paid Family Leave
One of the remaining, big European welfare-state entitlements is being developed in Congress — by Republicans.
A Government Shutdown is Not Really a Shutdown
Would it really matter if most, or even all, of federal employees who are sent home stayed home permanently?
A Breath of Healthcare Freedom For The New Year
On the elimination of the individual insurance mandate of ObamaCare
GOP Tax Reform Entrenches the Welfare State
This tax reform appears to have been designed primarily to help secure future funding for a large, and growing, welfare state. Is this really what most Republicans in Congress wanted?
The Presidential Legacies of Donald Trump and Barrack Obama
Barack Obama’s paternalism or Donald Trump’s nationalism?
A Pro-Capitalist Political Agenda
What a real advocate of Capitalism might say if he was offering himself for political office.
Scaremongering “Journalism” at The New York Times
Sadly, many think dumb things because most every day the Times runs deceitful, biased stories and headlines that mislead. Opinion columns have license to do that, but these days, Times’ smears extend to “news” stories.
The Palestinian Movement is Hostile to Individual Freedom
Let’s recognize that the Palestinian movement is deeply hostile to individual freedom, and treat it accordingly.
Racism in Business
Collectivists believe that individuals have value and identity only as members of a group, whether a tribe, a member of a political movement, a race. Therefore, collectivists hold, we should judge people as members of a group, not as individual human beings based on their own character or conduct.
Roy Moore Is Not Fit For Political Office
Insinuating that he thinks gays deserve to die and stating clearly and explicitly that he aims to enact a religious government disqualify Moore from political office.
What Capitalism Is and What Capitalism Is Not (Part 2 of 2)
The free enterprise, or capitalist, system has done more to improve the material condition of humanity than any other economic arrangement of human cooperation in all of recorded history.
What Capitalism Is and What Capitalism Is Not (Part 1 of 2)
“Capitalism is an economic system based on the principle of every individual’s right to his own life, his own liberty and his own honestly acquired property. This private property includes his own mind and body, and the physical products that his mental and physical efforts have produced.”
Reclaiming “Liberalism” From The Anti-Capitalist “Progressive” Left
Historically “liberalism” originally meant, and continues to mean for some, individual freedom, private property, free enterprise and impartial rule of law under constitutionally limited government.
The Mystique of State Power
Governments and ideological movements, Rougier explained, wrap themselves in “mystiques” that serve as the rationales for claims to an ethical and legal right to rule.
Only Capitalism Can End The Racism of “Identity Politics”
The change from social attitudes and political systems of collectivism to that of ones more “individualistic” began in “the West,” in Europe and then North America.
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