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TweetMichael Strain busts the myth that the U.S. income-tax regime isn’t progressive. Here’s Tony Morley on nitrogen: one stuff of progress. Rising wages in China are causing – as economics predicts –...
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TweetLike most (all?) human beings I understand envy well. I have felt it, and still do on occasion. But never in my adult life have I felt envy without also simultaneously suffering feelings of shame...
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TweetPhil Magness exposes the data manipulation used to justify the false claim that the incomes of lower-income Americans are taxed at higher rates than are the incomes of rich Americans. My intrepid...
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TweetMy intrepid Mercatus Center colleague Veronique de Rugy warns against wealth taxes. A slice: Reducing inequality is also a poor means to fix whatever these candidates think ails America. In a 2013...
View ArticlePittsburgh Tribune-Review: “Consistency & freedom”
TweetIn my Pittsburgh Tribune-Review column of November 10th, 2005, I lament intellectual and ethical inconsistencies. The column is beneath the fold. Consistency & freedom A foolish consistency is...
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TweetBaylen Linnekin reports on the harm to be inflicted on Americans by Trump’s war against Americans who trade with non-Americans. Here’s the abstract of a paper written earlier this year by Nicholas...
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TweetWalter Olson is truly frightened by the ghoul that is Elizabeth Warren’s proposed tax on wealth. My intrepid Mercatus Center colleague Veronique de Rugy reminds us that Milton Friedman was correct...
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Quotation of the Day…
Tweet… is from page 143 of Deirdre McCloskey’s brilliant 2019 book, Why Liberalism Works: How True Liberal Values Produce a Freer, More Equal, Prosperous World for All: Yet we all are required nowadays...
View ArticlePittsburgh Tribune-Review: “Consumption-ability”
TweetIn my March 30th, 2006, column for the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review I reported on the comparison of ordinary Americans’ work-time prices (for goods sold by retailers such as Sears) with work-time...
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Bonus Quotation of the Day…
Tweet… is from page 152 of Deirdre McCloskey’s splendid 2019 book, Why Liberalism Works: How True Liberal Values Produce a Freer, More Equal, Prosperous World for All: Once upon a time the bosses had...
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Quotation of the Day…
Tweet… is this November 18th, 2019, Facebook post by Bob Higgs: The obsession with equality — not equality under the law, not equality of human dignity, but equality of income, wealth, esteem, social...
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Quotation of the Day…
Tweet… is from page 155 of Deirdre McCloskey’s 2019 excellent book, Why Liberalism Works: How True Liberal Values Produce a Freer, More Equal, Prosperous World for All: The danger is that each new...
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TweetDesmond Lachman is rightly not worried that China’s economy poses a threat to that of the United States. (Indeed, I regret the loss of wealth – to the Chinese people as well as to Americans and...
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TweetShikha Dalmia argues that Trumpism increases Americans’ likelihood of embracing policies of the sort peddled by Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. A slice: Socialism subordinates the interests...
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TweetKevin Williamson brilliantly explains that we Americans are emphatically not winning the trade war. A slice: Like a great deal of what comes out of this White House, the new tariffs and the...
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TweetGeorge Will rightly – and devastatingly – criticizes Sen. Marco Rubio for “joining anti-capitalist conservatives.” A slice: Rubio serves in a legislature whose constant resort to funding the...
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Bonus Quotation of the Day…
Tweet… is from page 210 of Deirdre McCloskey’s superb 2019 volume, Why Liberalism Works: How True Liberal Values Produce a Freer, More Equal, Prosperous World for All: His [Thomas Piketty’s] ethics is...
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Quotation of the Day…
Tweet… is from page 6 of the late, great Wesleyan University economic historian Stanley Lebergott’s insightful 1975 book, Wealth and Want (footnote deleted): The first way to increase poverty in the...
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TweetKevin Williamson is brilliant. Here he eviscerates progressives, as well as conservatives such as Marco Rubio and Michael Brendan Dougherty, whose advocacy of industrial policy and other forms of...
View ArticleSome Hopes for 2020 and Beyond
TweetIn my latest column for the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review I express some hopes for 2020 and beyond. A slice: I hope also that people generally come to have a more realistic view of government. While...
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