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Entitlement Liabilities Are a Graver Threat to the Next Generation of Americans Than Climate Change | John Phelan
By 2030, there will be only two workers supporting each retiree, compared to 42 in 1946. In other words, a working couple will have to support not only themselves and their family but also someone outside the family thanks to Social Security and Medicare.
5 Ways the Hunger Games Dystopia Happened in Real Life | Jen Maffessanti
It's no secret that young-adult dystopian fiction had a very real moment recently with franchises like Divergent and Maze Runner making it to the big screen. But the most wildly successful has to be the Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins.
- "Zealous student activists find ways to punish those who make them think uncomfortable thoughts."
- $15 Minimum Wage Push Claims Latest Victim – Popular East Sac Greek Restaurant
Free Markets: Power to The People
Gov. Gavin Newsom announced last week that he was going to name an energy czar "in the wake of Pacific Gas and Electric Company's prolonged power outages," says the Sacramento Bee, because. According to the governor, "the entire system needs to be reimagined."
We Need A Cure For The Arrogance Of Drug Price Control Advocates - Center for Medical Economics and Innovation
"Three hundred forty-five billion dollars in savings versus the cost of eight to 15 fewer drugs over 10 years, I frankly think it's worth it." Rep. Darren Soto (D-FL), hearing before the House Energy and Commerce Committee In the above quote, Representative Soto is defending H.R.
Nordic Nations Show How Welfare and Redistribution Weaken the Human Spirit
Statists occasionally get very angry about some of my views. My support for "tax havens" periodically seems to touch a raw nerve, for instance, though I guess I shouldn't be too surprised since some people are so crazy that they have even urged military action against these low-tax jurisdictions.
Policies That Make Philanthropy Less Effective | Jordan Setayesh
Thanksgiving and Christmas are arguably two of the most philanthropic times of the year. As the holiday season approaches, the spirit of giving will begin to consume the minds of the public. However, unique to this year will be the degree to which politics might permeate the holiday season more than ever.
5 Personal Stories of Poverty and Oppression Behind the Iron Curtain | Foundation for Economic Education
The Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) was founded on the principles of idealism, economic freedom, and individual liberty. Perhaps it's not surprising, then, to have a concentration of staff members with an acute awareness of the violence and cruelty of life behind the Iron Curtain.
-"Federal Reserve a Threat to Liberty and Prosperity."
-Trucker Lawsuit Underscores Harm of California's AB5 Law.
-"As activists smear and hinder police, will the nation surrender to the forces of lawlessness?"
Nordic Nations Show How Welfare and Redistribution Weaken the Human Spirit
Statists occasionally get very angry about some of my views. My support for "tax havens" periodically seems to touch a raw nerve, for instance, though I guess I shouldn't be too surprised since some people are so crazy that they have even urged military action against these low-tax jurisdictions.
Title IX and the Law of Unintended Consequences | Larry Schweikart
A recent debate over obesity featured James Glassman, an American Enterprise Institute resident fellow, defending the fast-food industry and Shannon Brownlee, a New America Foundation senior fellow, complaining "not only is your local, state and federal government not doing anything about this disease-anything credible about it-but they are actually promoting this disease through taxes and other policies."
Warren's 'Big Fat Payoff to the Unions' Education Plan
Recently, Senator Elizabeth Warren released her education plan titled "A Great Public School Education for Every Student," but the scheme should have been named "My Big Fat Payoff to the Teacher Unions." The publicity splash in Warren's plan is her call to quadruple funding for the federal Title I program, which funnels money to disadvantaged students, to the tune of a whopping $450 billion over a 10-year period.
- California Democrats policies wipe out nearly 60 billion dollars in wealth after imposition of board gender requirements.
- "Presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., has unveiled a proposal to centrally plan the family by expanding the school day."
-The annual crises that visits Britain's nationalized health services should serve as a warning to Americans yearning for Medicare-for-all.
-Warren's proposed tax rate hikes would exceed 100% for some.
-Democrats in Congress want to raise the top individual rate to 47%
-The new district attorney (in San Francisco) will ignore quality-of-life offenses.
NEW ISSUE BRIEF: Damon Dunn Shares Stories from His Rise from Poverty, Makes the Case for Why Socialism Doesn't Work
Recalling his experiences overcoming extreme poverty, former collegiate and pro football player and successful businessman Damon Dunn makes the case for why socialism doesn't work in a new brief published by the nonpartisan, California-based think tank, the Pacific Research Institute. Download a copy of "My Rise from Poverty and Why Socialism Doesn't Work."
-Elizabeth Warren's "financing and savings ideas for Medicare for All bear no relation to reality."
-Socialists, Communists & other Leftists demand a rewriting of Chile's constitution promising to make South America's most prosperous country poorer.
-"California Can't Keep the Lights On."
-Chicago Mayor Caves to Public School Union...Students To Suffer The Consequences
-"UNC-Greensboro Besmirches Itself with Anti-Free Speech Conference"
Current Events:
- California Governor tries to deflect blame for wildfires and massive mandatory power outages that ate a result of the state's "progressive" policies.
-New California bill will deny independent and "gig" workers the freedom to choose how they work.
-Despite record job growth & African-American unemployment rate at an all-time low, Nancy Pelosi (D) rips Republican economic policies.
-"After blocking pipelines, he (NY Governor Andrew Cuomo) bullies a firm to deploy natural gas this winter."
-A new study by Stanford University economists show a significant number of high income earners left the state after the 2012 tax hike.
-Elizabeth Warren proposes another $800 billion in tax-payer dollars for K-12 education & promises to close for-profit charter schools and end federal support for all charter schools.
-The Left's "stakeholder" (vs. shareholder) model for business is proving disastrous in California.
-San Francisco bureaucrats to establish review board to determine if emerging technologies can be introduced into the city based on whether they serve the "common good."
-"Progressive" policies in California continue to plunge it into the Dark Ages literally. In addition to resurrecting medieval diseases such as typhus in the burgeoning homeless encampments that are now spreading outside major cities, California policies have resulted in rolling blackouts purportedly to stave off wildfires...but the reasons lie more deeply in intractable policy blunders bent on a social justice agenda.
-"Warren and Sanders’s plans to pilfer savings would hurt investment with little benefit"
-"The disgraceful Southern Poverty Law Center is now trying to keep poor parents from getting their kids out of awful schools."
-Striking United Auto workers this week cost themselves more than what they gained in new contract as well as caused 75,000 supply chain workers to lose jobs or wages.
-Republican Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida expands school choice benefiting children from families of modest means.
How Big Tech Smeared Brett Kavanaugh and Protected Jeffrey Epstein
While the New York Times' Robin Pogrebin's and Kate Kelly's The Education of Brett Kavanaugh turned out to be a giant dud, it did expose Silicon Valley's complicity in the false smears against the Supreme Court justice.
Cheesecake Factory's Free Cheesecake Disaster Is a Lesson in Scarcity and Prices | Jon Miltimore
To celebrate its 40th anniversary, The Cheesecake Factory announced it was giving away 40,000 pieces of cheesecake to customers who used the DoorDash app to place orders. What could possibly go wrong by giving away 40,000 slices of the most delicious cake on the planet? Well, quite a bit.
The Counterintuitive Truth about Earth's Resources | Marian L. Tupy
The world's resources are finite in the same way that the number of piano keys is finite. The instrument has only 88 notes, but those can be played in an infinite variety of ways. The same applies to our planet.
Income Mobility Data Show America Still Very Much the Land of Opportunity | Daniel J. Mitchell
I generally don't write much about the distribution of income ( most recent examplefrom 2017), largely because that feeds into the false notion that the economy is a fixed pie and that politicians should have the power to re-slice it if they think incomes aren't sufficiently equal.
Don't Blame California's Poop Crisis on Capitalism | Greg Morin
I recently had the opportunity to visit San Francisco for the first time. Coastal towns tend to be a bit more interesting in terms of cuisine (seafood being one of the more varied palate options) and architecture (steep hill structures are ever a testament to human ingenuity), and San Francisco scores high in both categories.
Competition Should Be Neither Restricted Nor Mandated | Connie Lin
Imagine two different track races. In the first race, there are 100 competitors who are all Olympic athletes. In the second race, there are 100 competitors, but all of them are obese yet were eligible to enter because of connections with the coach. Which race has more competition?
Competition Should Be Neither Restricted Nor Mandated | Connie Lin
Imagine two different track races. In the first race, there are 100 competitors who are all Olympic athletes. In the second race, there are 100 competitors, but all of them are obese yet were eligible to enter because of connections with the coach. Which race has more competition?
