Envy Is No More of a Virtue Than Greed
57% of the top 1% of people in 2001 were no longer in that 1% by 2011. With that little fact, I’ll let Tom Sowell take over:
Government Fiat of Prices Doesn’t Work
Can Congress make gravity illegal? Of course not, though they might try. No more than they could change other laws that occur as a result of nature, such as prices:
That sure doesn’t stop them from trying, eh?
Praxgirl, Part XIII
On Capital:
Does This Seem More and More Typical to You, Too?
I can hear a few fallacies in here that are less obvious when intelligent-sounding people are speaking, but present nonetheless. Oh, the benefits of democracy…
The Benefits of Inequality
Let’s pretend for a moment that I buy the whole “the U.S. economy creates inequality” bit. Here is an answer:
Watch Does U.S. Economic Inequality Have a Good Side? on PBS. See more from PBS NewsHour.
OWS & More of the Same
So thoroughly has the media embedded the myth that capitalism caused the crisis that the people don’t even know what they are protesting. Sad: The black homeless guy is pricelessly intelligent. We need more thinkers like him around, methinks… As an aside, if I had the money to not have to work I would be…
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