Political decisions can have a huge impact on both your financial and personal life.
Both economists and reasonable citizens understand that reforming our Social Security system is inevitable.
Even the negative or inconsequential effects of welfare often fail to convinced some people that a new system of assistance is necessary.
Blaming the 85% with 100% of the wealth for the poverty of the remaining 15% is unreasonable. The two are unrelated.
The partisan deadlock offers us a novel opportunity to reach consensus.
Why is the business of government seen as passing spending bills? Why isn’t the job of our representatives to work toward government restraint?
“The telephony, the bulk collection of America’s telephony metadata is contrary to the entire intent of Congress in enacting the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. It violates the statutory provisions of FISA. And it is unconstitutional.”
Spending, Debt and Deficit as a percentage of GDP continue to grow unchecked. What political process will ever stop them from bankrupting our country?
The video “Wealth Inequality in America” is not only misleading, but the research methods of its underlying study are laughable.
The government continued to pay for their website hosting and the domain name licensing but hid all of the data from Internet users.
Let’s spend $1.25 *billion* to enlist acceptance of Obamacare by young people.
Requiring employers to deliver government propaganda is genius.
When the Federal Reserve decided to maintain the $85 Billion monthly stimulus at their September policy meeting, they cited elevated mortgage rates as a top concern.
Obnoxious, playboy Tony Stark, more commonly known as Iron Man, is admired by his fictional and real fans alike. Why not real life CEOs?
This series of blog posts were intended to be a more reasoned reply to a complex issue.
Fun first. Freedom first. Innovation first. Financial goals first. But not safety. No one says, “That looks safe; I wonder if it is fun.”
When I work my 9 to 5 job and earn a paycheck, I receive a paper certificate I can trade in for the real reward of my labor. But why do investors get a reward?
A recent letter from a reader expressed the claim that there is no such thing as natural rights. Could he be right?
An unprovoked attack is always wrong everywhere, but can a law professor and attorney-at-law prove the biological basis for their field?
NPR writer Alva Noë says privacy is unimportant, but from the very start of his argument Noë is confused about what privacy is.
Here is one way not to argue against Libertarianism.
Three part time employees equals two full time employees while avoiding $4,000 in annual fines.
The Affordable Care Act encourages everyone to get health care insurance by punishing those who don’t. Proponents of Obamacare justify this saying that health care is a human right. But is it?
Corporations go bankrupt for a wide variety of reasons, but there’s only one reason for municipalities.
Money is not the source of the corruption in Congress.
We need to protect more of our natural rights by enumerating them.
Thanks to the public record, pieces of otherwise random information can be used to precisely identify an individual. Find out what some of the most common data leaks are in your life.
If there isn’t a strong enough outcry, these practices will become institutionalized.
Many people have asked what can be done. Here is a proposal.
“If they were in my position, and, you know, you live a privileged life—you’re living in Hawaii, in Paradise, and making a ton of money—what would it take to make you leave everything behind?”
David John Marotta and Megan Russell were interviewed on radio 1070 WINA’s Schilling Show discussing privacy and proposing an amendment on the right to privacy of correspondence.
Governments and individuals have different interests.
“I would rather be an oyster than a county regulator, the most stupid and senseless of animals.”
Some of the Confederate edits to the Constitution would have helped prevent a lot of the federal mischief we’ve experienced.
We were surprised by some of the reactions to our recent article on protective tariffs as one of the primary causes of the Civil War.
For every job outsourced to Bangalore…
Many Americans do not fully understand the causes of the Civil War.
It’s hard to believe they would both protest a tariff-created monopoly at the Boston Tea Party and then create one at the first congress.
The constitutions of many other countries guarantee and protect the privacy of correspondence. The United States does not.
The faceless government agencies aren’t really faceless at all; they are populated by the very same types of potential criminals and nogoodniks that we would avoid sharing our personal information with on the street.
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The lack of an adequate CPI adjustments leave seniors 71 days shy of a year’s worth of lovin’ it. Seniors deserve a break today!
Without public accountability, people are rightly suspicious that even the legitimate operations of government are corrupt.
Most people do not trace the effect of the unintended consequences of government programs. Even good things come with a price, and you always have to decide: is that price worth paying?
Bangladesh is “still a desperately poor country, and we shouldn’t minimize what a job with a steady paycheck means to a poor woman.”
Compliance isn’t just a technical burden. It is a threat of legal liability. The bill allows state tax audits by any state against any online vendor.
And yet we wonder why small businesses disregard so many government regulations.
The coercive power of government is more dangerous than the free market. Special interests use it to circumvent both the law and economics.
It is not a new tax. It is simply a tax that nearly everyone currently reading this column is successfully evading without prosecution.
Do infant industries need tariffs to protect them from their own inefficiency and stupidity?
Perhaps we would be economically better off with global trade, but do we have an obligation to maintain a higher moral standard?