by Richard M. Ebeling. We live in an era in which few can even conceive of a world without the welfare state. Who would care for the old? How would people provide for their medical needs? What would happen to the disadvantaged and needy that fell upon hard times? In fact, there were free market solutions and non-government answers to these ... MORE
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Showing posts with label poverty. Show all posts
Walter E Williams: Unappreciated Tax On The Poor
High risk neighborhoods are taxing themselves. A few years ago, BET had a commentary titled "Where Are the Grocery Stores in Black Neighborhoods?" One wonders whether anyone thinks that the absence of supermarkets in predominantly black neighborhoods means that white merchants do not like dollars coming out of black hands. ... MORE
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business,
commerce,
crime,
discrimination,
incentives,
politics,
poverty,
profit,
property rights
Scott Shackford: The Middle Class Is Shrinking!
Because They’re Getting Rich! Success is seen as a disaster when you care more about income inequality than mobility. "The American Middle Class is Losing Ground," is the title of Pew Research Center's new report on income inequality. That headline informed the headlines that other media outlets have settled on as well. The Los Angeles ... MORE
Tim Worstall: Capitalism Will Help The Absolutely Poor
The rising tide that lifts all ships. There’s a tendency for people to think that this greed for filthy lucre that capitalism harnesses so well won’t in fact help those who are absolutely poor. Because those absolutely poor, defined as living on less than $1.90 a day, don’t have much money. So, how and or why would anyone exploit them in order to ... MORE
Absence Of Capitalism Is Environment's Worst Nightmare
by Kerry Jackson. The solutions to global warming — in fact, to all environmental problems, real and perceived — are always antithetical to capitalism. To many who thrill to the global warming scare, capitalism is the cause of climate change. But those who think they would like the environment better without capitalism should try exactly that. ... MORE
Women Have Suffered More Under Obama Policies
by Stephen Moore. Now that Hillary Clinton has, by default, sewn up the Democratic nomination, expect Democrats to play the gender card for all its worth. In August, Clinton lashed out at the GOP field: "extreme views on women, we expect from some of the terrorist groups ... but it's a little hard to take from Republicans who want to be the ... MORE
Why Overregulation Of Payday Lenders Is A Bad Idea
by Veronique de Rugy. Combating bad ideas would be much easier if they were all backed by ill intent. More often than not, however, the opposite is true, and the worst government policies are enacted with the intention to help. Such is apparently the case with the aggressive campaign by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to ... MORE
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borrowing,
choice,
economics,
individual liberty,
loans,
opportunity,
policy,
poverty,
regulation
Walter E Williams: Wealth, Poverty and Politics
Sowell's new book is a fun read. Dr. Thomas Sowell, my colleague and friend, told me several years ago
that he wasn't going to write any more books, but that was two books
ago, and now he has just published his 45th. The man writes with both
hands, as can be seen from his website,
which lists his 45 books, 19 journal articles, 71 essays in ... MORE
Capitalism And Morality: Walter Williams Vs. Pope Francis
by Daniel J. Mitchell. The Pope is divinely ignorant on economics. The biggest mistake of well-meaning leftists is that they place too much value on good intentions and don’t seem to care nearly as much about good results. Pope Francis is an example of this unfortunate tendency. His concern for the poor presumably is genuine, but he puts ideology ... MORE
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capitalism,
economics,
evidence,
free market,
inequality,
Marxist,
poverty,
voluntary exchange
Thomas Sowell: The Fact-Free Left
Somebody wants poverty and dependence. The outrage over another multiple murder of American military personnel on American soil by another Islamic extremist has been exacerbated by the fact that these military people had been ordered to be unarmed — and therefore sitting ducks. Millions of American civilians have also been forbidden ... MORE
Thomas Sowell: 'Just Asking'
Obama's class warfare "questions." In a recent panel discussion on poverty at Georgetown University, President Barack Obama gave another demonstration of his mastery of rhetoric — and disregard of reality. One of the ways of fighting poverty, he proposed, was to "ask from society's lottery winners" that they make a "modest investment" ... MORE
Radley Balko: The Ongoing Criminalization Of Poverty
Many police departments have inappropriate goals. A series of reports over the last few weeks have shed more light on the increasingly predatory enforcement of misdemeanors across the country, and how this trend disproportionately hurts the poor. The first report comes from an area familiar to readers of The Watch — St. Louis County, ... MORE
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crime,
exploitation,
government,
incentives,
law enforcement,
police state,
poverty,
protection
Stephen Moore: Greens Against The Poor
How the climate change agenda hurts the poor. Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton,
Elizabeth Warren and the whole gang of Democratic leaders claim that
one of their highest priorities is to lift up the middle class and
reduce the income gap between rich and poor. That goal collides
with what they admit is their very highest priority: stopping ... MORE
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agenda,
Democrats,
dishonesty,
environment,
green,
Hillary Clinton,
Obama,
politics,
poverty
American Families Are Being Economically Destroyed
by Michael Snyder. The systematic destruction of the American way of life is happening all around us, and yet most people have no idea what is happening. Once upon a time in America, if you were responsible and hard working you could get a good paying job that could support a middle class lifestyle for an entire family even if you only had a high ... MORE
Walter E Williams: Selma And Voting Rights
Today's problem not about discrimination. March 7th was the 50th anniversary of "Bloody Sunday," the first attempt by black protesters to march from Selma, Alabama, to Montgomery to demand voting rights. Their march was brutally halted by Alabama state troopers acting under the orders of Gov. George Wallace. The protesters weren't ... MORE
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Blacks,
civil rights,
crime,
culture,
discrimination,
politicians,
politics,
poverty,
prejudice,
race
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