Hopefully we won’t be forced to choose between unpalatable and awful.
Daily Analysis
What’s Required to Finance Roads, Schools, and Healthcare?
How much money does the government really need?
Shoddy Oxfam Study on Inequality Puts Greece, Afghanistan, and Zimbabwe Ahead of Singapore
Nonsense from the buffoons at Oxfam.
Work, Dependency, and the Welfare State
Depressing numbers about growing dependency in the United States.
Why Businesses Don’t Owe More Taxes to Fund Welfare for Low-Wage Workers
Another argument from the left that makes no sense.
Paul Krugman Is Learning the Wrong Lesson from Denmark
Denmark’s welfare state has created a problem.
Socialist Myths About Economic Growth
They aren’t so much ignorant of basic economic laws as indifferent to them.
Denmark’s Successful Transition from Tax-Financed Old-Age Payments to Private Retirement Accounts
Another country creates a retirement system based on private savings.
By Design: Poverty Forever
Why the war on poverty is unwinnable.
The Non-Relationship Between Welfare Spending and Poverty Reduction in the Western World
Poverty in rich nations declined before modern welfare states.