by Henry Oliner | Jun 9, 2016 | Business, Economics, Politics, Progressivism
Uber reduces DUIs, traffic fatalities, and accidents. The drivers are safer because it is cashless and the entire trip is tracked online. And they carry more insurance than the cabs. They are more available and better serve their customers. By all means lets harass...
by Henry Oliner | Nov 2, 2015 | Business
from The Wall Street Journal Encouraged by the Feds, Cities Are Punishing Business by John Ella The challenge for employers is not only the cost of higher wages or paid sick time. Multistate employers compelled to monitor new developments in thousands of cities...
by Henry Oliner | Oct 14, 2015 | Politics, Progressivism
An important axiom of government is to imagine that the law or regulation you propose or champion is in the hand of your worst nightmare. Would you want that person to have the same power you are proposing to be used by those you currently favor. Too often our...
by Henry Oliner | Apr 23, 2015 | Politics
Jonah Goldberg writes Martin O’Malley’s modern-day know-nothingness at AEI excerpt: The first minimum wage laws were advocated by progressive economists on the assumption that if you forced employers to pay a “white man’s wage,” they’d only hire white men. As the...
by Henry Oliner | Dec 10, 2014 | Business, Consumer, Politics
In a few previous posts I explored the dynamic of new commercial enterprises like Uber (read Uber Libertarians in American Thinker) that defied the ability of the regulatory state to deal with the rapid development of very large commercial communities. More on that...
