Income Inequality: The Elixir
Human Progress Is Impossible Without Income Inequality Seeing someone doing better for themselves than you are motivates self-improvement and innovation. Marian L. Tupy September 24, 2018 Barack Obama once referred to income inequality as “the defining challenge of [...]
America’s Untethered Debt Crisis
There is a solution, but we've been chasing the wrong target. By Mike Kapic October 15, 2018 Why do Democrats (and some Republicans) insist on increasing taxes when history shows us that lowering tax rates increases revenues to [...]
The United States of Free Trade
WSJ September 22, 2018 n 1824 the Supreme Court held protectionist state laws unconstitutional. Wild prosperity ensued. By John Steele Gordon | 1001 words The Constitution requires free trade, the U.S. Supreme Court held in 1824. In Gibbons [...]
Sweden and ‘Democratic Socialism’
How ‘Democratic Socialism’ Wreaked Havoc On My Native Sweden Sweden's experiment with 'democratic socialism' resulted in four decades of lost progress. Let's learn from their mistake, not emulate it. By Anders Ingemarson September 5, 2018 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s July 26 Democratic [...]
Grapes of Union Wrath
WSJ September 22, 2018 By The Editorial Board | 429 words Workers at Dan Gerawan’s third-generation family farm in Fresno, Calif., voted five long years ago to decertify the United Farm Workers. Their ballots were finally counted this [...]
Socialism’s Popularity
What to Do About the Growing Popularity of Socialism Brad Wenstrup August 29, 2018 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, 28, defeated the third-most powerful Democrat in the House of Representatives, Joe Crowley. (Photo: Marco Garcia/Reuters/Newscom) Twenty-eight-year-old democratic socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez jumped [...]