by Brian Garst | Dec 14, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs, Free Market, Regulations
The South Los Angelos City Council is not satisfied with the culinary choices of the people of South Los Angelos. While consumers have been voting one way with their wallets, the City Council has voted to use government force to override their preferences. How many...
by Brian Garst | Dec 6, 2010 | Blogs, Economic Growth
Although not necessarily the intent of this video, the impressive data visualization makes it hard not to see just how profoundly the spread of freedom and capitalism has dramatically improved the lives of billions throughout the world in such an historically short...
by Brian Garst | Dec 1, 2010 | Blogs, Economic Growth, Taxation
Nancy Pelosi was rightly mocked for her nonsensical assertion that subsidizing unemployment is the best way to stimulate the economy. Unfortunately, as we pointed out at the time, such claims reflect nothing more than standard Keynesian economics as understood by so...
by Brian Garst | Nov 30, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs
Management of roads used to be the business of local governments – that is, until the federal government dangled its grant money over the states as leverage. Now, thanks to this usurpation of authority, we have stories like this: …[T]he Federal Highway Administration...
by Brian Garst | Nov 23, 2010 | Blogs, Taxation
We’re not the only ones who have taken issue with Austan Goolsbee’s high tax propaganda video. Here’s 6 year old Josh’s take: Even the 6 year olds aren’t buying the class-warfare propaganda. Meanwhile, here’s our own response to the Goolsbee...
