Paying $3.99 for diapers instead of $4.19 gives Mom 20 cents more she can spend on lean ground beef instead of mostly filler. And that’s a good thing for kids. But governments need to fund themselves, and the ‘fairest’ way… Read More ›
taxes
TRADE, TAXES, AND TARIFFS
Here’s another from the Words-No-Longer-Mean-What-They-Did file. In talking about free trade, what’s the contrast class? It can’t be compelled trade, since that would just be a synonym for expropriation. And yet by free trade we don’t just mean trade that… Read More ›
SINGLE-PAYER HEALTHCARE
Thomas Hobbes tells us that in the state of nature, as distinct from that of civil society, “the life of man [is] solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.” Which is not to say the same can’t be said of some… Read More ›
Paulosophical Vimplications 