Showing posts with label central planning. Show all posts
Showing posts with label central planning. Show all posts
Bernie Sanders's 12-Point Socialist Plan for America
by Pedro Gonzales. Every committed revolutionary needs a plan. Karl Marx had one, and so did Joseph Stalin and Mao Zedong. Add to that group socialist senator Bernie Sanders from Vermont, who is considering running for president (as a Democrat) and has already announced a 12-point plan at the Huffington Post. He writes: As Vermont's ... MOREReports Suggest FCC Poised To Regulate Internet
by John Gizzi. There has been mounting evidence in the last two weeks that the Internet, one of the last unregulated venues for communication, might well be headed for federal regulation. What makes the specter of Internet regulation (or "net neutrality," as its proponents prefer to call it) all the more ominous is that it might become ... MOREJohn Stossel - Good Intentions, Incentives And Poverty
The great conceit of central planners. Fifty years ago, President Lyndon Johnson declared "War on Poverty." It sounded great to me. I was taught at Princeton, "We're a rich country. All we have to do is tax the rich, and then use that money to create programs that will lift the poor out of poverty." Government created job-training programs for ... MORERichard M. Ebeling: The Miracle and Morality of the Market
Freedom to choose is the freedom to self-determine. One of the great fallacies arrogantly believed in by those in political power is the notion that they can know enough to manage and command the lives of everyone in society with better results than if people are left to live their own lives as they freely choose. The fact is, there is far more ... MORE130 Environmental Groups Call For An End To Capitalism
by Michael Bastach. No longer hiding from their socialist agenda. Environmentalists have declared that global warming can’t be stopped
without ending the “hegemonic capitalist system,” saying that
cap-and-trade systems and conservation efforts are “false solutions.” “The structural causes of climate change are linked to the current ... MOREJohn Stossel: Who'll Build The Roads?
Government planners vs the free market. "Tea party members don't think there's a federal role in transportation!" complained Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, last week, near the site of a $5.8 million highway project. If only most tea party members were that radical. While Brown and other big-government folks worry that Republicans will ... MOREThomas Sowell: The Ambassador And The Post Office
A lesson about capitalism. At one time, people in India had to get on a waiting list to buy Hindustan Motors' Ambassador automobile, even though it was an obvious copy of Britain's Morris Oxford of some decades earlier. The reason was simple: the Indian government would not allow cars to be imported to compete with it. The fact that the ... MORECalifornia Rep Wants State Minimum Wage To Be $26 Hour
The inmates are running the asylum. Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Calif., said that she supports raising minimum wage in the state of California to $26 an hour, adding that she doesn’t think such a hike would hurt small business owners. Speaking on CNN’s “Crossfire,” the California Democrat disagreed with Republican congressmen looking to ... MOREThe Free Market Vs The Interventionist State
by Richard Ebeling. In whatever direction we turn, we find the heavy hand of government intruding into virtually every aspect of American society. Indeed, it has reached the point that it would a lot easier to list those areas of people’s lives into which government does not impose itself – and, alas, it would be a very short list. But it ... MORESteve Chapman: Why Obama Is Pandering Overtime
Vision of the anointed is just another job killer. If you take an economics course, you may learn about the different events that can cause an increase in workers' pay. The demand for the product a worker makes may rise, causing the demand for workers to go up. The supply of workers may decline, causing employers to bid up wages to keep ... MORERoger Meiners: Regulating Our Way To Prosperity
Government Math: More rules = more money. If you’re wondering why the stock market has risen in recent months despite uninspiring economic news, look no further than the Federal Register. This massive volume, where all new regulations are published, promises a bright economic future that should ease anyone’s concern ... MOREObama's Scorched Bird Policy To Fight Climate Change
Solar farm efficient at frying passing birds. Environmentalists have hit out at a giant new solar farm in the Mojave Desert as mounting evidence reveals birds flying through the extremely hot 'thermal flux' surrounding the towers are being scorched. After years of regulatory tangles around the impact on desert wildlife, the Ivanpah Solar ... MOREUnemployment Is Freedom Under Obamacare
by David Harsanyi. Obamacare will reduce American workforce participation by the equivalent of two million full-time jobs in 2017, according to a new report by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). Work hours would be reduced by the equivalent of 2.5 million jobs in 2024, a tripling of the previous estimates. If you believe this report ... MOREObama’s SOTU Brings Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged to Life
by George Rasley. President Obama’s State of the Union address skillfully glossed over just what a sorry state the Union is in these days. Obama’s address, full of deceit and the obfuscation of any facts at odds with his hard-left secular agenda, stands out in its repetition of the threat to act without Congress as perhaps the most anti-democratic ... MORE
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