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Sep 09
More Businesses are Dying than Starting in America
According to Jim Clifton, chairman and CEO of Gallup, “for the first time in 35 years, American business deaths now outnumber business births.” See here. Small business startups are being choked off by mountains of taxes and regulations. “Believe it or not, when measured in per-capita terms, socialist countries such as Denmark, Finland, New Zealand …
Sep 08
Wages have nothing to do with miserliness or generosity
The brilliant economist John C. Goodman is out with another brilliant column. This one about the foolishness of minimum wage laws. See here. : To summarize: a firm that pays workers more than they are worth cannot survive because it cannot match the prices and the rate of return to investors of its rivals. A …
Sep 08
Obama Claimed CO2 is Melting Glacier that has Actually Been Melting Since 1815–Long Before Rising CO2 Levels
Last week, U.S. President Barack Obama was on an Alaska propaganda trip, designed to promote government’s “climate-change” socialism agenda. Give government vastly greater power, says Obama (and hundreds of other U.S. government officials) or everyone is doomed. To illustrate the government’s hysterical claims, Obama spoke at Alaska’s Exit Glacier, claiming the Glacier is melting rapidly …
Sep 06
Government continues waging war on pain doctors and their patients
For years, government drug investigators and prosecutors have sought to act as “supervising physicians” over the medical profession–indicting and imprisoning doctors (and often, their patients) whom the government deems to be dispensing or using too much pain medication. Pain is a symptom, not an illness, and no two doctors or health experts agree on pain …
Sep 05
“Disability” Checks Now Sustain 11 Million Americans
There are roughly 300 million Americans. Some 100 million of those are children or retirees. Of the remaining roughly-200 million eligible workers, MORE THAN 5 PERCENT claim to be “disabled” and unable to work. They generally draw monthly “disability” checks for life. The “labor participation rate” is now near an historic low. See here. The …
Aug 29
Montana Political Candidate Faces Government Accusation of—Purchasing a Domain Name Without Notifying Government
There is a powerful movement among the ranks of government trusters to allow government vastly more power in the area of political regulation. This movement sometimes calls itself a “campaign finance reform movement” and promotes its pro-government agenda by means of certain innocuous-sounding slogans. It posits that the influence of the private sector on politics …
Aug 27
Newborn Baby born in Government Health Care System Eaten to Death by Rats
Here is a blurb about the single-payer government healthcare system in India. According to Tom DiLorenzo: Healthcare Socialism in India is as awful, or worse, as socialized healthcare anywhere else. As just one recent example, a newborn baby in an incubator in a government hospital in India was eaten to death by rats. The government …
Aug 27
Fake Science: The Majority of Experiments by Government-Supported University Psychologists Cannot Be Replicated
Most government-supported universities are dens of pro-government sentiment masquerading as social science. Government “research” funding supports thousands of university psychologists who churn out studies that–unsurprisingly–support various socialist and pro-government theories and expansive welfare-state economics. Pro-government voices in academia are becoming increasingly shrill. Witness some of the hysteria surrounding the government’s “manmade-global-warming” claims. See here. But …
Aug 23
The Medical Industry is Now So Overregulated that Even Government Hospitals Can’t Fill Job Vacancies
American health care is so overregulated that the VA SCANDAL THAT BROKE LAST YEAR is still not resolved–and never will be. In order to “fix” the Veterans Administration health care problems that were much publicized last year, hundreds of new doctors, nurses and staff needed to be hired. But it turns out that hiring such …
Aug 22
Venezuelan Government Declares Martial Law to Fight “Smugglers”
Every economic regulation–whether laws governing labor, product quality, or prices of goods or services–creates a black market. And socialist countries which seek to regulate everything suffer (or, rather, experience the comforts and joys of) black markets in every commodity and industry. Here is a recent BBC story about efforts to thwart free-market transactions in Venezuela–a …
