May 9, 2021 ~ David Harsanyi, 'Profit Margins Save Lives' 'the entire notion of having to choose between people and profits, a belief that undergirds much of leftist economics, is debunked by the existence of the COVID vaccine.' Drugs cost $3 billion to develop. No one will do it if no profit.
Mar 16, 2021 ~ Stephen Moore, 'Don't Force Workers to Join a Union' Rep. Tim Ryan lies about the 'Protecting the Right to Organize Act' Says its 'giving the right to organize.' They already have that. 'This bill doesn't allow people to associate with a union. It forces them to join the union.'
Mar 13, 2021 ~ Bloomberg, 'A Tax Code Optimized for White Wealth Leaves Black Americans Behind'. Title is not just misleading. Outright false. Tax code does not consider race. If renters are victimized by the mortgage deduction, far more white people are victimized by it than black people.
Mar 5, 2021 ~ Neil Patel, 'Time to Start Talking About America's Coming Bankruptcy' ' why are we ignoring this obvious and impending catastrophe?' 'At some point... the interest we pay on our debt will be so high we will not be able to afford the rest of our budget.' Political loser to address
Mar 3, 2021 ~ Johnny Kampis, 'New Study Shows Folly of Net Neutrality Regulations Around the Globe' 'Researchers from the Vienna University of Economics and Business examined net neutrality policies' Net neutrality regulations resulted in 'slower speeds and increased costs harmed the market.'
Mar 3, 2021 ~ David Harsanyi, 'AOC’s Terrible Minimum-Wage Argument' Comparision to Denmark where McD employees make $22/hr is very misleading. Denmark has no minimum wage. About half of that goes to taxes and food and other goods are far more expensive there.
Feb 25, 2021 ~ Veronique de Rugy, 'Don't Overlook Minimum Wage's Negative Effects' Economist Walter Williams always explained why the negative effects of minimum wage outweighed the positive and good intentions. CBO estimates 1.4 million jobs lost for $15. Business go under. Less hours, hiring.
Feb 9, 2021 ~ The CBO released a report analyzing the economic impact of the Raise the Wage Act, which would increase the minimum wage to $15 by 2025. Results: $54 billion deficit increase, would drive up the prices of goods and services, and would kill 1.4 million jobs. Lose, lose, lose.
Feb 5, 2021 ~ The mayor of Long Beach mandated $4 raise for all grocery store workers. Kroger had to close 2 stores in response putting many out of work. Biden during debate, 'there is no evidence that when you raise the minimum wage, businesses go out of business. That is simply not true.'
Feb 5, 2021 ~ Mario Loyola, 'The Dark Side of the Minimum Wage' 'The data show that increasing the minimum wage results in a significant net increase in unemployment. The increase is particularly pronounced among young adults - and most pronounced of all among low-skilled workers.'
Dec 21, 2020 ~ House Representative-elect Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) said 'I believe our current system of capitalism is slavery by another name.' Jamaal is also all in on the 'Defund the Police' movement causing skyrocketing crime in Democrat controlled cities.
Dec 10, 2020 ~ Economics giant, Walter Williams dies. He is revered and mourned by conservatives. "Prior to capitalism, the way people amassed great wealth was by looting, plundering and enslaving their fellow man. Capitalism made it possible to become wealthy by serving your fellow man."
Nov 17, 2020 ~ Ryan Mills, 'Florida Restaurateurs Warn Minimum-Wage Mandate Could Shut Them Down' Dems never get that artificially raising wages cuts hours, jobs, raises prices, shuts down businesses, shifts to more automation like touch screens etc. 'There’s no pot of gold in this building.'
Nov 7, 2020 ~ Will Swaim, 'California: Not as Crazy as We Thought?' CA voted against tax hikes on business property, for keeping it illegal to discriminate on race (Prop 16). 'They absolutely crushed rent control' and voted to allow independent contractors to work as freelancers.
Nov 3, 2020 ~ Jazz Shaw, 'California legalizes shoplifting with predictable results' Blue cities are decriminalizing theft and telling employees not to interfere with looters or shoplifters to avoid being called 'racist.' But many stores losing money including big stores are leaving the state.
Oct 22, 2020 ~ Kevin Williamson, 'Joe Biden Can't Tax the Rich'. Tax increases on 'the rich' and businesses boomerang back onto the poor and middle class. They pass on the increases in the form of higher prices, lower wages, less raises, less hours, layoffs, etc. GDP goes down. Hurts 401k too.
Oct 11, 2020 ~ The WHO now says lockdowns are a bad way to fight #COVID19. 'We in the World Health Organization do not advocate lockdowns as the primary means of control of this virus,' said Dr. David Nabarro, the WHO's Special Envoy on Covid-19. They make 'poor people an awful lot poorer.'
Oct 8, 2020 ~ Midwestern State U 'Ethics' Prof Nathan Jun says 'I want the entire world to burn until the last cop is strangled with the intestines of the last capitalist, who is strangled in turn with the intestines of the last politician' Says University has 'callous disregard for my safety'
Sep 16, 2020 ~ Recall, in addition to being a self proclaimed Marxist, Black Lives Matter Co-Founder Alicia Garza said we have to 'abolish capitalism' for black lives to matter. 'It’s not possible for a world to emerge where black lives matter if it’s under capitalism.' Says that on website too
Sep 3, 2020 ~ The American Psychological Association, says 'Every institution in America is born from the blood of white supremacist ideology and capitalism - and that's the disease'. Another disgusting smear. The @APA controls education and licensing of most U.S. psychologists.
Aug 19, 2020 ~ Derek Hunter debunks the narrative that the reason the median income of whites is higher than blacks is due to 'white supremacy' and oppression. Whites are 9th on the list of median income in the US. Indian Americans highest. Asian, Pakistani Americans, others higher than whites.
Aug 6, 2020 ~ Stanford University economist Eric Hanushek reviewed nearly 400 studies on school funding and concluded that "there is not a strong or consistent relationship between student performance and school resources." Funding is up 280% per student inflation adjusted since 1960.
Jul 8, 2020 ~ Robert Doar, 'Denying Progress Is Key to the Left's Rhetoric' 'There are hundreds of ways to document how different America is today than it was 60 years ago.' Political, black president, 57 black members of Congress, black college graduation rates 4x, millions in upper income.
Jun 26, 2020 ~ BLM founder Patrisse Cullors reveals why these riots continue. 'Trump needs to be out of office?our goal is to get Trump out now.' Protestors wear 'Trump/Pence Out Now' stickers. They also claim to be 'Marxists' and chant 'Abolish Capitalism Now'. This is not about George Floyd.
Jun 20, 2020 ~ Alexandra Phillips, The Telegraph, 'Make no mistake - BLM is a radical neo-Marxist political movement' All these corporations giving millions to #BLM have no idea what they are signing up for. 'BLM happily self-identifies as a neo-Marxist movement... dismantling capitalism' etc.
Jun 10, 2020 ~ Andrea Widburg, 'A word about public-sector unions' Great explanation of why public-sector unions are bad. FDR understood. Normal union is labor vs. management. Both have skin in the game. Business fails if unreasonable. PSUs are workers+politicians vs. taxpayers who have no say.
Jun 9, 2020 ~ Manufacturing plant 7-Sigma will not be rebuilding In Minneapolis after it was burned to the ground in riots. 'They don't care about my business. They didn't protect our people. We were all on our own. The fire engine was just sitting there but they wouldn't do anything.' 50 jobs
May 18, 2020 ~ Ibram X. Kendi says 'Capitalism is essentially racist; racism is essentially capitalist. They were birthed together from the same unnatural causes, and they shall one day die together from unnatural causes.' Nonsense. Capitalism is simply an economic system based on liberty.
May 13, 2020 ~ John Stossel on how the unintended consequences of the Americans with Disabilities Act may have harmed people with disabilities more than it helped them by making employers afraid to hire them. 'Before the ADA passed, 59% of disabled men had jobs.' 48% after, now less than 30%.
Apr 28, 2020 ~ Rich Lowry, 'The Hospital Crisis of Our Making' One purpose of shutting down was to protect health care workers. But they're being laid off by the tens of thousands due to stopping 'elective' medical care. 'We had to destroy the hospitals to save them.' Unintended consequences.
Apr 23, 2020 ~ Mitch McConnell and GOP correctly refuse to bail out states that were heading to bankruptcy prior to COVID19 due to decades of under funding pensions. 'There's not going to be any desire on the Republican side to bail out state pensions by borrowing money from future generations'
Apr 23, 2020 ~ Andrew Cuomo is asked about the concerns of people who lost their job and want to get back to work. He said, 'if you want to go to work, go take the job as an essential worker.' Very out of touch. Jobs people use to feed their family and pay their bills are essential jobs.
Apr 1, 2020 ~ Walter Williams, 'Managing a Disaster'. Professor Williams tries again to explain how price gouging laws cause the kinds of shortages we are seeing due to COVID19. Allows some to hoard while many others get none. Allowing prices to rise would signal more production, less hoarding
Mar 17, 2020 ~ Walter Williams, 'Socialism's Past'. Prof. Williams catalogs a long list of failed socialist promises and predictions and equally untrue statements and predictions about capitalism. Among the quoted, 'Stalin, Lenin, Mao, Castro, Hugo Chavez, Maduro, and Bernie Sanders.'
Mar 17, 2020 ~ John Stossel explains why laws against 'Price Gouging' do more harm than good. When prices are allowed to adjust to supply and demand, 'people don't experience long lines and shortages.' Otherwise, 'Only the first customers get what they want.' 'Price "gouging" saves lives.'
Mar 11, 2020 ~ John Stossel, 'Government Outlaws Freelance Work' New law requires reclassifying freelance workers as employees. 'people who hire them must now give them benefits like overtime, unemployment'. Vox calls it 'a victory for workers everywhere', then lays off hundreds because of it.
Feb 28, 2020 ~ Bill Barr, 'The crux of the progressive program is to use the public purse to provide ever-increasing benefits to the public and to, thereby, build a permanent constituency of supporters who are also dependents.' Make us 25 yr olds in the basement fighting for a bigger allowance.
Feb 26, 2020 ~ At a CNN Townhall a student named Beverly who racked up an insane $250,000 in student loan, mostly from undergrad asked Sanders, 'What is your plan for students like me with student loan debt and how do you plan to pay for it?' Who wouldn't spend that much if the government pays?
Feb 25, 2020 ~ Stephen Moore, 'Natural Gas Is Crushing Wind and Solar Power' The cost of natural gas is down 90% since 2005 'thanks to fracking' which dems want to ban. Had to import natural gas 10 years ago. This boom has allowed the US to reduce CO2 emissions faster than any other country.
Feb 20, 2020 ~ David Harsanyi, 'Bernie's Wrong: We Are Better Off Today Than We Were 45 Years Ago' Sanders claim that 'after 45 years of work are not making a nickel more than they did 45 years ago.' 'is a myth'. There's been a 45% wage increase since 1964 and those dollars go much farther.
Feb 5, 2020 ~ Walter Williams debunks the idea that corporations pay taxes. 'Corporations are simply tax collectors for the government.' 'A corporation can shift the tax burden by raising its product prices, lowering dividends or laying off workers. The lesson is that only people pay taxes.'
Dec 26, 2019 ~ Seattle waitress lost her job 'as a consequence of the city's harmful minimum-wage experiment.' She says 'I'm proudly progressive in my politics, but my experience shows that progressives should reconsider minimum-wage laws that hurt the very workers they're trying to protect.'
Dec 24, 2019 ~ Heartland Institute releases policy brief 'Debunking the Scandinavian Socialism Myth: An Evaluation of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden' Despite Bernie talking points, these are not socialist countries. Yes they have high taxes but have freer markets than the US in many ways.
Dec 17, 2019 ~ CA AB 5 law prohibits freelancers from submitting more than 35 articles per year. Govt trying to force the full time hire of those people but they just killed freelancing in CA. Companies forced to hire from other states. Vox which supported the law fires 100s of CA freelancers.
Dec 11, 2019 ~ Citadel prof Dr. Richard Ebeling article 'Business Ethics and Morality of the Marketplace' Under Capitalism 'You can only improve your own position by improving the circumstances of others.' 'All associations and relationships are based on voluntary agreement and mutual consent '
Dec 2, 2019 ~ Mark Ruffalo says 'It's time for an economic revolution. Capitalism today is failing us, killing us, and robbing from our children's future.' Madness. He has a net worth of about $30 million and is campaigning for a socialist. Socialism is what has failed and is killing its people
Nov 27, 2019 ~ John Stossel, 'Thanks Private Property'. Explains how the Pilgrims 'almost starved' trying socialism with no private ownership. In a desperate attempt to try something new, Bradford 'assigned every family a parcel of land' People started to work and invent. Soon they had plenty.
Nov 20, 2019 ~ Joshua R. Hendrickson debunks new book 'Triumph of Injustice: How the Rich Dodge Taxes and How to Make Them Pay' which claims to show that rich and poor pay the same average tax rate. Many problems with the analysis. One big one is they don't include transfer payments as income.
Nov 13, 2019 ~ Norman Rogers article, 'Fake Wealth and Income Statistics'. Dems complain that its unfair capital gains and dividends are taxed lower than income. But dividends are taxed twice so combined it's a 38% rate. And since cap gains not inflation index, most of tax is on inflated gains.
Oct 15, 2019 ~ As usual, minimum wage hike unintended consequences make things worse for workers. CNN Business 'the wage increases are not helping because their hours are falling.' 'I got that dollar raise but I'm getting $200 less in my paycheck' Some forced to quit because hours too low.
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