Libertarians Have it Backwards
Taxes are not theft. Failure to pay taxes is theft. We the member-owners of the corporation/society The United States of America, have collectively decided that we are going to implement a system...
View ArticleWisconsin Elected a Winner. Not.
Shorter Gov. Scott Walker of WIsconsin:Paraphrased - “Wisconsin doesn’t have anything to bargain with or about: we have no money for improved pay or retirement, therefore the unions shouldn’t have...
View ArticleNot Even Left-Libertarians Escape Criticism
There's a new blog in the liberal blogosphere that's made a bit of a splash recently. It's called Bleeding Heart Libertarians and it's from and by a couple of the much speculated upon but rarely seen...
View ArticleEat Mor Chikin - Only Rhetoric Can Save Us Now
Getting my liberal friends to add emotive content to their arguments is like getting my three year old to eat anything we call chicken - it's not that she doesn't like chicken, but if we call it that,...
View ArticleShow Me This Contract I Signed, Dagnabit!
Ahh, the famous Missouri Argument, favored by Internet Libertarians of all varieties. What can you do about it? It's so simple - If I'm under contract, I must be able to point to a piece of paper...
View ArticleOf GUTs and Inclusivity
First off, I'd like to welcome msszczep to the community!msszczep has written a couple of thoughtful posts about unifying the Left, here and here. Both very thoughtful posts, you should go read them.I...
View ArticleThe Most Important Economic Insight of the Last 50 Years
Free-Marketeers (Em-Ay-Ar-Kay-e-Tee-E-E-Ar-Ess, Em-Oh-You-Es-EEEEE!) simply do not understand how modern economies work. Their theories of economics are thoroughly rooted in the 19th and early 20th...
View ArticleHow to Know More About Modern Economics Than Every Conservative Ever - In...
Okay, I exaggerate (slightly). If you follow Libertarian/Conservative economic arguments (and can take the pain), you'll eventually hear a plaintive call to either go back to a gold standard for money...
View ArticleTo the Virginia Commonwealth Medicaid Innovation and Reform Commission
Here is the text of the letter I wrote to the Commonwealth Medicaid Innovation and Reform Commission in their debate as to whether to accept Medicaid Expansion or not. You can write your own comments...
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Work as Intrinsic Moral Good? Not So Fast
Philipp Jakob's Coalbrookdale by Night, a painting that symbolizes the birth of the Industrial RevolutionRecently, and for obvious reasons, there’s been much discussion of work and the notion of...
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