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Jul 26
Government’s War on the Poor: More than 1/3 of Households have No Savings
Government policies punish savers so much that it is utterly foolish to save even a penny. Near-zero interest rates. “Social Security” payroll taxes. Medicare and Medicaid. Obamacare. Market-entry barriers such as occupational licensing laws. Government policies incentivize Americans to work less, build less, create less, save less, be unhealthy, sick and weak. “Nearly 20 million …
Jul 23
Collapsing Chicago Public Schools Seeking to Force Rural Illinois Property Owners to Pay $17 BILLION Debt
The Chicago Public School District is $17 BILLION in debt. (That figure is greater than the annual State budgets of numerous entire states combined; Chicago’s “teachers” often retire as multimillionaires in a state that has experienced years of declining household incomes.) Years of corruption and government central planning have taken their toll. (And all measurements …
Jul 23
Google’s new “guidelines” call for the company’s programmers to optimize websites that represent “well established scientific consensus” and to downgrade those which are skeptical
The world’s most frequently-visited search engine, Google, has produced “guidelines” for its programmers. Interestingly the guidelines tell programmers to optimize “High quality information pages on scientific topics” which represent “well established scientific consensus on issues where such consensus exists.” (Section 3.2) But writer Leo Goldstein reminds us that “the allegations of “scientific consensus” are made …
Jul 23
A scam collapsing before our eyes: Global warmists appear to have removed links to “data” which showed Greenland glaciers retreating
A few years back a guy named James Balog started “the Extreme Ice Survey.” He produced an award-winning video, “Chasing Ice,” which featured him cramponing around the glaciers of Greenland and Alaska with sad piano music in the background. Balog’s theme was that he wanted to video and photograph the glaciers before they melted away. …
Jul 22
Tesla: the Lobbying Firm Masquerading as a Car Maker
Governments worldwide propose “energy policies,”–subsidizing some energy firms while taxing and overregulating others. Picking winners and loses by obstructing free markets. For decades, U.S. lawmakers have been subsidizing “alternative energy” schemes that would never work without government support. “The first justification was that internal combustion engines polluted too much. But emissions steadily declined, and today’s …
Jul 19
US Postal Service gave time off and benefits to postal workers who campaigned for Hillary
“Campaign finance reformers” often depict (private sector) funding of political ads as an overwhelmingly influential factor in elections. But there are many ways that people and institutions influence election outcomes. Government agencies have numerous means of trying to influence the political sphere. Now the Washington Post reports that the US Postal Service gave time off …
Jul 19
Bob Barr: the Nightmare of Single Payer Health Care
Baby Charlie, a British infant suffering from an incurable disease, has been ordered to be “humanely” killed by British courts. This is against the wishes of his parents who are desperate to explore all options to extend his life. In the words of Bob Barr, “In the healthcare system in a free society, the ability …
Jul 18
Socialism lowered life expectancy in Venezuela while capitalism raised life expectancy in Chile
Many government lovers condemn and criticize the rightist regime that took over Chile in the 1970s. Naomi Klein’s book “The Shock Doctrine” begins with a (mostly false) story that Chile’s Pinochet adopted free-market policies and followed the guidance of free-market economist Milton Friedman. But while Chile under Pinochet was hardly the free-market model its enemies …
Jul 16
A majority of self-described conservatives now view America’s colleges as a DRAIN on society
An astounding new study by the Pew Research Center is out: A majority of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents (58%) now say that colleges and universities have a negative effect on the country, up from 45% last year. By contrast, most Democrats and Democratic leaners (72%) say colleges and universities have a positive effect, which is …
Jul 16
Is global warming the biggest financial scam in world history in addition to being the world’s biggest scientific scam?
Several science professors have said that apocalyptic-manmade-global-warming-by-carbon-dioxide hysteria is the biggest scientific scam in world history. The hoax has relied on worldwide collusion of government-funded scientists and censorship of dissent in important channels and media outlets. It is the first major scientific fraud that went worldwide, with almost all of the world’s governments embracing it. …
