Boxers? Briefs.

Quick thoughts on a Monday. Springtime is the best season. By far. The first day of sundress season should be a national holiday. Anyone care to argue any of these claims? 1. The American health system has been broken for a long time. 2. This bill won’t improve quality of service. 3. It won’t decrease prices to [...]

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For a Hamburger today…

There’s a reason a big-ass lie is called a “whopper”.  Someone’s going to try to convince you this is a good deal. The CBO reported late today, in a letter to Senator Bauccus, the CBO spelled out the news. That net cost itself reflects a gross total of $829 billion in credits and subsidies provided [...]

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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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