Actually, I think this is a great idea for helping women protect themselves.
Archive for May, 2011
It “saved or created” 450,000 jobs – at the expense of 1,000,000 jobs. Someone please explain to the general public that government never creates wealth – it just distributes it.
Reason magazine just came out with a piece that unfortunately misunderstands the FairTax by quite a bit. I don’t think it’s a hit peice, per se, but there are at least two big points misunderstood in the article that I would like to correct:
1. It’s not a “loophole” that secondary markets aren’t taxed. It’s wrong to tax something more than once, and so the FairTax only applies to new goods and services. If this brings about an economic boom in thrift stores and flea markets, or makes America a more efficient and recycling society, that’s not a bad thing.
2. The price of goods should stay roughly the same, which means there shouldn’t be a great discouragement to our retail sector. Since highly inefficient corporate taxes are going away, those embedded costs which already make up 20-30% of the price of goods are simply being replaced by a sales tax. A lot of economic study has been done on this particular point.
In addition, one of the comments I noticed misunderstands the prebate. Government isn’t going to be monitoring everyone’s income anymore, and only giving the prebate to poor people. Everyone gets it – hence the “Fair” part of “FairTax”. Everyone gets enough of a prebate that no one pays tax on the basic necessities of life – only costs above the poverty level.
Writing. And the publishing companies don’t want authors to notice.
Excellent. It seems like we’re approaching the insect-born disease safety of the old DDT days. With only a billion lives lost in the meantime.
Interesting. They’re realizing that welfare states collapse with open borders policies. Of course, they collapse eventually without them, too.
Read this frustrated post by an Illinois State Senator. This is how Democrats have run a state that voters consistently give them.
Yes, there are Republican machines, and voters who will pull the trigger for anyone with an (R) – but the effect isn’t anywhere near as bad as the number of voters around the country who religiously view (D) as good, and anything else as evil. The truly despicable behaviors you see in Illinois, Massachusetts, California, New York, Michigan, and Wisconsin (until just recently) from their various governing bodies (and especially in the cities in each of those states), are the direct result of liberal voters who honestly believe that as long as they’re pulling the trigger for the right party, things will be fine – and then they look the other way the rest of the time and ignore the government idiocies and atrocities that go on, or somehow think they’re not responsible.
Oh, and you can see Democrats behave with this arrogance at the national level, too. Republicans did somewhat too, until they got voted out in 2006.
Just enough to try to swing his popularity. If he really recognized that drilling was good he wouldn’t be so reserved in what he allowed. This is simply naked political calculation.
Glenn Reynolds endorses the idea. Hey, they’re invasive because they don’t have any local predators. So we should become the local predator. It’s easy math – you just have to be willing to kill some critters.
Related: how does parakeet taste?
It was a failure of the market in the sense that it was the failure of a market that had perverse government incentives.
What would make it not a failure? How about taking away its government monopoly, removing the bureaucrats, and putting businessmen in charge?
While they try and come up with special incentives to prevent Sears from moving out – wouldn’t it be better to come up with general incentives to encourage all the smaller businesses that are almost certainly simultaneously leaving from going?
How many businesses do you think are leaving the country while the same politicians, now in charge of the country, are busy crafting policies for various social and political agendas instead of letting our businesses thrive?
