Preferring Partisans

Happy Stimulus Anniversary! Hope you’re all enjoying the jobs we saved! And your solid gold toilets, and your free taxpayer-funded golf carts! This one is rather long, but I do drop an F-Bomb if you stick around long enough. Evan Bayh is stepping down, and blaming the poisonous partisanship on the hill. From Yahoo! News (which features [...]

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Washing My Hands

Can you renounce your state citizenship?

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Golf Clap for Idiocy

We all know Michigan’s economy is craptastic; it’s become proverbial, like the Pope crapping in the woods.  (Is that a joke anyone makes besides my dad?) Michigan’s a poisonous mix of high, progressive taxes, union influence, and “investments” in public money-sinks like education, public works, and corporate subsidies. From the WSJ Meanwhile, the new business [...]

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The Last of the Golden Days

California is collapsing.  The Guardian has an outsider’s perspective on the downfall of the world’s eighth largest economy.  The Golden State is fading. California has a special place in the American psyche. It is the Golden State: a playground of the rich and famous with perfect weather. It symbolises a lifestyle of sunshine, swimming pools [...]

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Is charity a public good?

It seems to me that most justifications for government welfare programs are moral arguments that claim the right and obligation of government to take money from the rich and give to the poor.  My intuition is that this argument is misguided, but I won’t address that here.  Instead, I’m interested in another argument, an actual [...]

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