Identity Hypocrites

Identity Hypocrites

Get on an airplane. Work at a government job. Enter a government building. Open a checking, savings, brokerage, or retirement account. Apply for a credit card, loan, or mortgage. Apply for Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, Welfare, food stamps, or other government...
Free Riders

Free Riders

America has a free rider problem. Except when she doesn’t. Except when she does. Except when she doesn’t. Depending on who you talk to, progressive taxation combined with various forms of welfare are either a justified “redistribution” of...
Cutting the Rungs

Cutting the Rungs

Way back in the day, which in modern measurement means the previous Presidential campaign, Democratic candidate were all of a mind on doubling the national minimum wage. That there is a mountain of scholarship explaining why this is a Bad Idea from an economic...