Sep 25, 2017 ~ Tom Purcell, 'Spending Other People's Money' - when landlords charge a flat rate for utilities, renters run up bills many times what they otherwise would - this is exactly why government provided services cost so much. When things are 'free', people over consume. Basic economics
Sep 24, 2017 ~ W. Bradford Wilcox 'Why Marriage Matters, It greatly reduces the risk of poverty' You are almost certain to avoid poverty if you follow the 'Success Sequence'. Finish high school, get married and start a family IN THAT ORDER. 97% of millennials who did that are not in poverty.
Sep 3, 2017 ~ Price Gouging - John Stossel tries to explain yet again why the anti-gouging laws are counter productive in a disaster. If prices are not free to equalize supply and demand, shortages result blocking people who really need something, enabling people who don't need it to stock up.
Aug 26, 2017 ~ Michael Tanner, "The Problem with the 'Otherwise, People Will Die' Argument for Big Government" Economic growth does more to save lives than any government program ever could. Big government and high taxes reduce economic growth. Nothing kills like poverty.
Aug 12, 2017 ~ Michael Tanner, 'Entitlements Are Out of Control. We are entering an economic death spiral' Totally unsustainable and getting worse. People rebel at the slightest cut back or slowdown in growth no matter how small. Bankruptcy is almost inevitable.
Aug 7, 2017 ~ Scott Rasmussen, 'Automation is Nothing New' In 1900 33% of Americans worked on farms, now its 1% displacing millions of workers - tons of examples of new jobs created when old jobs wen away. Don't need Universal Basic Income to deal with it - Global Trade still good for workers.
Aug 6, 2017 ~ BET television network reports on disparate impact on black teens of minimum wage rise. 'Black Teens Are Fired When the Minimum Wage Rises' Economists Walter Williams and Thomas Sowell have been explaining this for decades but it comes as surprise to dems ignorant of economics.
Aug 1, 2017 ~ John Stossel, 'Chomsky's Venezuela Lesson' Left Wing Useless Idiots like Chomsky, Moore, Penn, Stone still won't admit Venezuela is another massive failure of Socialism as it predictably descends into poverty and chaos. Stossel provides a long list of similar nation fates.
Jul 30, 2017 ~ Everything costs more when government builds it - Stossel talks about a $2 million park bathroom and other ridiculous examples to show how wasteful everything is that is done by the government
Jul 29, 2017 ~ Minimum Wage Laws are Destroying Jobs - Just as Predicted - Study by University of Washington Economists - workers making $125 less per month than they were before the increase - most affordable places hit hardest - many thousands of jobs destroyed, restaurants closed
Jul 25, 2017 ~ The whole reason we have employer paid health insurance in the US is because FDR imposed price and wage freezes during the depression to stop inflation - companies had to use benefits to attract the best workers
Jul 15, 2017 ~ Maine restaurant workers successfully lobby to reduce their minimum wage. They understand economics better than liberal politicians who are busy 'helping' people out of jobs and wages elsewhere. Now St. Louis reduces their minimum wage from $10 to $7.70 for same reasons.
Jul 9, 2017 ~ US nonfarm payrolls total 222,000 in June vs 179,000 expected - Trump signs an executive order seeking to expand apprenticeship and vocational training, close the skills gap and reduce regulatory burdens.
Jun 27, 2017 ~ 'If you have been voting for politicians who promise to give you goodies at someone else's expense, then you have no right to complain when they take your money and give it to someone else' - Thomas Sowell
Jun 25, 2017 ~ Many Top Tech Titans Praise President Trump at White House Meeting - Praise his Innovation Council and its effort to modernize America's computer systems that are far behind in many respects - the unhinged left not happy
Jun 21, 2017 ~ Stossel argues that these billionaires giving away a lot of money would help more people by using the money to do more of what made them billionaires - create jobs and products that have benefited us - much of their given money is wasted
Jun 19, 2017 ~ 3 things that prevent poverty no matter your race - finish high school, get a full-time job -any job-, and wait to be married before having your first child - skip any of these and you are likely poor no matter your race - fathers are key
Jun 11, 2017 ~ Rick Moran, '85% drop in food stamp recipients in AL counties where work requirement restarted' according to the Alabama Department of Human Resources. Predictable. 'During the Obama administration, the number of SNAP participants nearly doubled - as did the SNAP budget.'
Jun 4, 2017 ~ Female CEOs out earn Male CEOs. Median compensation of female CEOs is several million dollars higher than male CEOs. Must be sexism - the government must DO SOMETHING to fix this.
May 16, 2017 ~ Stephen Moore, 'Obamacare Taxes Are Dangerous to Your Health and Wallet' Repeal of Obamacare Taxes help everyone by allowing hiring and the economy to grow - they are not tax cuts for the rich. 'every one of the taxes was counterproductive'
May 13, 2017 ~ Walter Williams, 'Trade Ignorance and Demagoguery' Economist Walter Williams explains again why trade deficits are not a problem to be solved and trying to solve them will do more harm than good - his best attempt.
May 13, 2017 ~ Sowell and Moore explain Supply Side Economics again and how cutting taxes have several times in the past led to the rich paying more taxes and the government getting more revenue due to economic growth - 3-4% growth will slay deficit provided spending does not rise faster.
May 13, 2017 ~ George Will, 'Who Wants to Be a Billionaire (in 1916)?' How far American Capitalism has taken people - 'Americans today of all means live longer and better than the very wealthiest did a century ago' including billionaires in 1916.
Apr 29, 2017 ~ The true cost of California's minimum wage hikes - CA business owner explains how he has to deal with them - not just layoffs and business failures - people above minimum wage can't get raises - high performers can't be rewarded
Mar 30, 2017 ~ Shapiro, 'Health Care Is a Commodity, Not a Right' Treating it as a right has driven up cost tremendously. Treating it as a commodity would reduce prices with more competition and profit incentive. 'Rights that derive from individual need inevitably violate individual autonomy.'
Mar 13, 2017 ~ Tyler Durden, 'Minimum Wage Massacre - Wendy's Unleashes 1,000 Robots To Counter Higher Labor Costs' - others follow - predictable as the sun rising but the left will never stop harming the very people they claim they are helping. Legislating prices and wages doesn't work.
Feb 22, 2017 ~ John Stossel, 'Repeal! No, Wait!' Stossel explains why regulations are so hard to undo no matter how bad - gives several examples of horrible regulations that were impossible or nearly impossible to repeal due to special interests.
Feb 13, 2017 ~ Dennis Prager, 'Audi - The Car for the Unhappy Woman' - Lying Superbowl ad that perpetrated the myth that women are paid less than men - its been debunked so many times its depressing that it keeps coming up but it's an important democrat talking point, fake as it is.
Jan 22, 2017 ~ Ben Shapiro, 'The Myth of the Stagnating Middle Class' - Many people believe the middle class is disappearing but the facts do not bear that out - in fact, much of the old middle class has moved higher and is now upper middle class.
Jan 22, 2017 ~ Friedrich Hayek and his teacher Ludwig von Mises dismiss the idea of 'social justice' - there is no such thing - The 'social justice warriors' of the past gave us communism, the worst poverty the modern world has ever known
Jan 15, 2017 ~ Larry Elder, 'Living Wage Is as Wrongheaded as the Minimum Wage' - Arguments against the minimum wage are so basic to economics that even left wing economists like Krugman and Jonathan Gruber got it. Living wage is just another phrase for minimum wage.
Dec 31, 2016 ~ Pat Buchanan, 'Trump Right on Trade Predators' - According to the WTO, Britain, France, Spain, Germany and the EU pumped $22 billion in illegal subsidies into Airbus to swindle Boeing out of the sale of 375 commercial jets and other examples. Taken advantage of.
Dec 31, 2016 ~ Minimum wage hikes create 45,000 new robot jobs at Amazon as they are forced to automate jobs where it used to be cost effective to use people. Democrats will never get that you can't make people worth a certain salary by making it illegal to pay less.
Dec 31, 2016 ~ Thomas Sowell retires - many celebrate his career and write tributes to an intellectual giant in economics and clear thought.
Dec 31, 2016 ~ Walter Williams explains how sugar tariffs are harmful. For each 'sugar growing and harvesting job saved through high US sugar prices, nearly 3 confectionery manufacturing jobs are lost'. Consumers pay higher prices. Less money for other goods. Trade barriers harm employment.
Dec 31, 2016 ~ Ed Rensi, 'Thanks To 'Fight For $15' Minimum Wage, McDonald's Unveils Job-Replacing Self-Service Kiosks Nationwide' - Predictions were right - Jobs lost, businesses closed - purpose was always to enrich SEIU members whose salaries are tied to the minimum wage.
Dec 20, 2016 ~ David S. D'Amato, 'The Importance of Free-Market Banking Reforms' - Dodd-Frank has made it very difficult for smaller banks to compete with larger banks which can better absorb all of the increased costs - consumers are big losers.
Dec 1, 2016 ~ John Stossel, 'Thanksgiving Tragedy' - Pilgrims started with socialism and many starved - 'tragedy of the commons'. No one had incentive to work. They thrived after embracing private property - Bureau of Indian Affairs keeps Indians in poverty today because of the same problem
Nov 13, 2016 ~ Paul Ryan releases 'A Better Way' - path for country to move forward to sustainably fight poverty and provide health care, addresses the problem of not being worth it to find a job because of lost benefits - being totally ignored
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