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Ignoring the Bitter Choice

That people should wish to be relieved of the bitter choice which hard facts often impose upon them is not surprising.  But few want to be relieved through having the choice made for them by others.  People just wish that

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Ignoring the Problem is Not a Solution

That people should wish to be relieved of the bitter choice which hard facts often impose upon them is not surprising. But few want to be relieved through having the choice made for them by others. People just wish that

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We Are All Redistributionists

The president ran on clear ideals of a fairer and more just society,  ultimately meaning redistribution of income. He saw the gaps between the rich and the poor widening.  He has been demonized by his opposition for being socialist, communist

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Property and Equality

It is probable that we habitually overestimate the extent to which inequality of incomes is mainly caused by income derived from property, and therefore the extent to which the major inequalities would be abolished by abolishing income from property. What

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Who are the Independents?

In the wake of the elections  of November 3, 2008 we noted the dramatic swing of the independent voter.  Who are these voters and why do they refuse to ally themselves with one of the two major parties?  I confess

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Free Speech and Free Markets

Jonah Goldberg writes in National Review Online, Capitalism vs Capitalists Excerpts: “Every ten years I quote the same adage from the late Austrian analyst Willi Schlamm, ….. ‘The trouble with socialism is socialism. The trouble with capitalism is capitalists.’” If

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The Favorite Lie

“As the mortgage crisis unfolded it soon became clear that a different Bush was in charge. As late as the spring of 2008, only the Bear “hedge funds” and a bunch of mortgage originators had been all;owed to die. No

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Capturing vs Creating Wealth

“Prevailing in Washington as on Wall Street were the most vile and self destructive assumptions of anti-capitalists everywhere who imagined they could wield capital even while abandoning the principles that created it; that systems could substitute for the moral standards

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Rebel Yid Top 21 Tweets of 2009

1.      blaming economic crises on “greed” is like blaming plane crashes on gravity.- Thomas Sowell 2.      “crony capitalism” is to capitalism what National Socialism (Nazism) is to socialism- hko 3.      ‘Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for

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The “F” Word

From Wikipedia “In the economic sphere, many fascist leaders have claimed to support a “Third Way” in economic policy, which they believed superior to both the rampant individualism of unrestrained capitalism and the severe control of state communism. This was

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