The Great Rush Limbaugh had this to say about liberals, economics, and taxation: Hey, by the way, it was just pointed out to me that the left does understand how raising taxes reduces economic activity. How about the desire for increasing cigarette taxes, soda taxes? What are they trying to do? Get you to buy …
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Just recently, a new guy I follow on X did a very enlightening post on Windows 11, and how Microsoft succumbed to the trend toward the bean-counters running the show. Reproduced entirely below, with link to original X post at the bottom. He connects all the dots leading to the short-circuiting of the process of …
I hadn't really thought much about this mostly-urban phenomenon, but this explanation brings together a myriad of influences on the young adults who populate cities and some suburbs. See if this rings true to you. Link to original article at the end, which shows the Reddit post that the author is responding to. The “DoorDash …
I came across this story in the Epoch Times about a mostly-unknown crisis in Communist China. Their population is rapidly aging, and since the huge re-estate collapse their "social insurance" program is in big trouble. Due to the disastrous one-child policy, which led to female infanticide as well as a shrinking overall population, there is …
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I graduated from college in 1971 with a bachelor’s degree in Psychology. Back in junior high school, a psychiatrist had helped me a great deal, so I decided that I wanted to be a psychologist when I grew up. Since you can’t do much with a bachelor’s degree, I applied to graduate schools to get …
Last week, Michael Solon wrote an op-ed essay in the Wall Street Journal entitled "What Democrats and the CBO Don't Get". He was talking about how the administration's actions relating to the economy are not leading to economic growth, which is the best way to increase federal revenues and improve conditions for Americans. However, none …
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So, they say they can't "survive" on $8.25 per hour. They want the government to mandate that their employer pay them more, regardless of the fact that if the employer is made to pay them more, they might not get to keep that job at all. How about they get an education, acquire new skills, …
The stock market consists of the combined actions of millions of individual and institutional investors, all over the world. These range from big mutual fund companies buying and selling stocks for their "actively managed" funds to individual investors sitting in front of their computers placing trades once in a while, to "day traders" who move …
This summer, I attended the Hillsdale Hostel at Hillsdale College in Michigan. I took a seminar entitled What is America. We had lectures from awesome Hillsdale professors, including Gary Wolfram and Burt Folsom. I learned from Dr. Folsom that the US History textbooks I used in high school in Seattle (way back in the 1960's), …
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