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welfare
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US Tax Rates Are Too High, Well Over The Laffer Curve Peak
We’ll all recall how so many are calling for much higher income tax rates on higher earners. Because…
We Can’t Have More Welfare State Because We Can’t Afford The One We’ve Got
Looking around the electoral promises today we see two major calls. One, that we’ve all got to pay…
Nutters Should Have The Bennies – Criminals Not
It’s difficult to work out what the actual complaint here is: [perfectpullquote align=”full” bordertop=”false” cite=”” link=”” color=”” class=””…
We Already Can’t Afford The Welfare State We’ve Promised Ourselves
Another reminder of the sad and basic fact that we cannot afford the welfare state that we’ve already…
Trump To Change Poverty Inflation Calculation – He’s Right And Michael Hiltzik Wrong
This is one of the very terrors of the modern age apparently – that Donald Trump’s Administration is…
America Can’t Afford The Welfare State It’s Already Promised Itself
A standard point made by free market types like us around here is that the welfare state isn’t,…
You Can Have Generous Welfare Or High Immigration, Not Both
No, this isn’t Milton Friedman’s point that you can have free immigration or a welfare state but not…
Bernie Sanders Aims At Amazon And Gets Millions Of Low Wage Workers Fired
If only Bernie Sanders understood even the merest hint of economics. But then, obviously enough, if Bernie Sanders…
The Laffer Curve Applies To The American Welfare State As Well
As far as our best bet goes – this is from the Diamond and Saez paper – the…
Is Private Help a Bad Thing? – Political Spectacles of the Left
Some social and political analysts regard private help as a bad thing. They speak of the “problem” of…