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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.' [Ben Shapiro, Economics, Health Care]
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. [Minimum Wage, Economics]
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. [John Stossel, Regulations, Economics]
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. [Dennis Prager, Gender Pay Gap, Fake News, Economics]
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. [Ben Shapiro, Economics]
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 [Economics]
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. [Larry Elder, Economics, 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. [Trade, Economics]
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. [Minimum Wage, Economics]
Dec 31, 2016 ~ Thomas Sowell retires - many celebrate his career and write tributes to an intellectual giant in economics and clear thought. [Economics, Politics]
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. [Walter Williams, Economics, Tariffs]
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. [Minimum Wage, Economics, Unions]
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. [Economics, Regulations]
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 [Economics, Socialism, John Stossel]
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 [Economics, Entitlements]

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