A few posts back, I coined the phrase “glorious ineptitude” to describe a dramatic shift in the way we measure institutional success. Back in pre-woke America, institutions used to be judged by their results. If a school, for instance, produced a lot of kids who were competent at math and English, it was a “good” …
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The best police are no police. And I’m not saying that from the perspective of a blue-haired SJW. I’m saying that from the perspective of someone who understands that police are a response to moral decay. If our society were infinitely more virtuous—and the foulness of murder, rape, assault, and robbery were exceedingly rare—we wouldn’t …
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We all know why Big Business, Big Non-Profit, Big Labor, and Big Tribalism donate money to federal politicians. They want Congress to pass laws that favor them with some form of cronyism—that is, they want either tax-avoiding loopholes, revenue-enhancing subsidies, or competition-hobbling regulations. Not all lobbying is bad, of course. If I were a billionaire, …
In part one of this two-part series, I made the case that being fake dependent on government subsidies is much more preferable to being real dependent on government subsidies. I also made the observation that far too many Americans find themselves on the wrong side of the dependency divide—without government subsidies, their quality of life …
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What is a government subsidy? For the purposes of this post, a government subsidy is a government benefit that derives from any government program that is exclusionary. Obamacare, for instance, isn’t open to all Americans. In order to get an Obamacare subsidy, you must have a low or modest income. If you make too much, …
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