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Category Archives: Economics
Jobs For Young People
Want to destroy them? Raise the minimum wage.
One of the reasons that I’m not a Republican is that they won’t argue over principle. They’ll concede it to the Democrats, and then just negotiate the price. They shouldn’t be arguing that it shouldn’t be raised — they should be arguing that it shouldn’t exist, on both principle of freedom of contract, and on its devastating effects on youth unemployment, particularly in the inner cities. The notion that there should be a single minimum wage applicable to all fifty states is both odious and ludicrous.
The Republicans’ Obsession With Debt
Are they overdoing it? Jimmy Pethokoukis thinks so. The best way to get out of debt is to grow our way out, with less regulation and lower tax rates, but entitlements have to be reformed, and soon.
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Bad link. Fixed now, sorry.
How Dare You?!
Daniel Hannan has a good piece on the NHS:
The elision of the “hardworking doctors and nurses” with the state monopoly that employs them is what allows opponents of reform to shout down any criticism. People who complain are treated, not as wronged consumers, but as pests. People who argue that there might be a better way of organising the system are treated, not as proponents of a different view, but as enemies.
Any organisation that is spared criticism becomes, over time, inefficient, insensitive, intolerant. It has happened to the United Nations. It has happened to the mega-charities. It happened, for a long time, to the European Union (though not over the past five years). The more lofty the ideal, the more reluctant people are to look at the grubby reality.
We can’t let that happen here. I’m sure that many of the people behind this legislative atrocity would love to jail its critics, if they could.
It’s Panic Time
Thoughts on the current health-care mess from Walter Russell Mead.
Fountain Of Youth
Wow. Looks like they’re going to start human trials of that mouse-rejuvenation treatment next year.
The societal impacts of this would be enormous.
The End Of The Beginning
A brutal but accurate assessment from Bill Whittle.
The ObamaCare Chaos Strategy
We know they always wanted to get to single payer. They’ll do whatever they have to in order to push toward that goal. The question is whether or not the Republicans and voters let them get away with it. Of course, a few lawsuits would help as well.
Discussing ObamaCare
A conversation between Instapundit and Mickey Kaus. Don’t miss Glenn’s rant channeling Mark Levin.
A Good Start
Seventy public-employee unions have been dismantled in Wisconsin. One of the few things that FDR was right about was that they should have never been legal.