Keeping People Poor
7 Things I'd Do if I Wanted to Keep Poor People Poor Spoiler: we're already doing all of these things. Brian Balfour August 26, 2018 If I wanted to keep poor people poor, there are several government policies [...]
Another Attack on Social Security
Why Using Social Security for Paid Family Leave Is a Bad Idea Using Social Security for paid family leave would accelerate the depletion of the trust funds, which are already projected to run dry by 2034. Rachel Greszler [...]
Minimum Wage & Real People
Ending Tips Would Only Worsen The Effects On Restaurant Workers Of DC’s Minimum Wage As a person who has made most of my life’s income from tips, I can confidently say Jane Fonda has been woefully misinformed about [...]
Fed is the Biggest Polluter
Needs a Smaller Federal Footprint As one of the largest polluters in America, the federal government needs to clean up its own act. Ross Marchand July 31, 2018 In the days since Rep. Carlos Curbelo (R-Fla.) introduced new carbon tax [...]
The Face of Socialism
Sorry If You’re Offended, but Socialism Leads to Misery and Destitution David Harsanyi / @davidharsanyi / July 27, 2018 On the same day that Venezuela’s “democratically” elected socialist president, Nicolas Maduro, whose once-wealthy nation now has citizens foraging for food, announced [...]
How Capitalism Could Save the World
A world of capitalism is a world of peaceful, voluntary, mutually agreed upon interactions where no person or group is politically privileged over another. by Richard M. Ebeling June 11, 2018 In following the daily news events both in [...]