I take for granted the benefits of our free markets most of the time. Right now I am sitting in a big steel building eating a delicious and quite cheap French dip sandwich and chips and apple. It’s sort of a little mall with a bunch of independent little stores. How did this come to be?… read more “The Profit Motive”
All of my socialist and far left friends, what would you think of the adoption of these policies? Rent caps / abolition, communalized department stores, nationalizing businesses, etc:
We demand the nationalization of all businesses which have been formed into corporations (trusts).
We demand profit-sharing in large industrial enterprises.
We demand the creation and maintenance of a healthy middle class, the immediate communalizing of big department stores, and their lease at a cheap rate to small traders, and that the utmost consideration shall be shown to all small traders in the placing of State and municipal orders.… read more “Socialists Policy Platform”
Every single one of the worst dictators of the last century was a socialist – Chairman Mao Zedong, Adolf Hitler, Josef Stalin, Kim Il Sung, Fidel Castro, Nicolas Ceausescu, Saddam Hussein, Muammer Gaddafi, Nicolas Maduro, Kim Jong Un, and Pol Pot. Do a search on any of them to read about their atrocities against their own people.… read more “Every One of the Worst Dictators Started as a Socialist”
Seattle and New York City both elected socialists as mayor in the last couple of weeks. How do you think absolute dictators came to rule over people in Germany, China, Russia, and North Korea? It seems like a pretty diverse array of countries with very different cultures? These dictators were all from socialist parties and all promised that the government would solve the problems facing the people.… read more “Socialists are here to help!”
The far left believe that you should not be able to keep the money you work for. They believe they have a right to use the government to steal the product of your labor.
The problem is once the government starts stealing from those who work, they stop working. When everyone stops working, the government has to force people to work.… read more “Don’t take from those who work”
Our new baby is a lot of work and a lot of lost sleep. My wife does the majority of the work, but I still lose a lot of sleep and productivity.
I am a libertarian and prefer minimal government involvement, but if the government is to do anything in the entitlements area, I think there is a good case to be made to pay mothers.… read more “New baby + state pay for women with children”