It doesn’t matter if the policy is about taxation, immigration, or green regulations. If the policy isn’t working, the response of a leftwing government is always the same. “Keep doing it - only bigger, harder, and even more expensive!”

The problem with socialism is that the wealth it seeks to redistribute can only be generated by a free market economy.

One of the core lessons from world history: Socialism doesn't eliminate greed—it redirects it from market competition to political competition. The latter is far more destructive.

Rule3O3 Yes. You can't sell me on high density until the people you're squishing me up against are people I'm willing to be squished up against.

Take life seriously enough to be successful, but not so seriously that you become miserable.

Libertarianism is for a moral and intelligent people. I do wish there were a way for people within these camps to "opt out" and leave the masses to their own undoing.

I give a 5-pt extra credit end-of-course survey. One question asks if the workload was too little, appropriate, or too much for a high school course. I had 1 student (of 124) who said too much. He has a 9% & is trying to get to 70% before Friday. Maybe I'm not the problem!

Elon Musk Leaves Job Of Making Government More Efficient For Much Easier Job Of Sending Humans To Mars buff.ly/faLsGrt

Congress spends $2 trillion more than its revenues, the Fed then buys this debt.   Congress then pays the Fed interest.   The Fed then pays interest to big banks to keep cash reserves.   This is how govt makes the rich richer.   But it gets worse.  According economist Judy

There are honest, intelligent people who strongly disagree with you.

Right-wingers mythologize 1950; left-wingers mythologize 20,000 BC

Socialists societies does not tolerate groups of people practicing freedom. Capitalists societies comfortably allow people to choose voluntary socialism.

“But colonization explains Africa’s poverty today!” Singapore was colonized by Britain until 1965. Today they’re significantly wealthier than their former colonizer.

yapsama 🍮 Posts are my outlet to get what's in my head out. I don't care who likes or sees it 😂 Also, mental illness. 😂

At the most basic level, you have to do the amount of work that produces value that corresponds to the value of the work of others you intend to consume. This is, in a sense, the fairest and most reasonable thing easily imaginable

Politicians who claim that we should dramatically raise taxes on billionaires should first demonstrate that they can efficiently allocate the tax revenue they already have and only then call for more

Try this: "Like any thoughtful group of educators, we must pay careful attention to what students say and do in order to ensure we're serving them to the best of our ability. But at the end of the day it's the adults who are in charge and accountable."

Concern over wealth inequality is not proof of oppression. It is proof of resentment. It does not mean the rich have stolen. It means the observer cannot stand that others have achieved more. Inequality, by itself, tells you nothing about justice. It tells you nothing about how