Category: Political Freedom
College: Crony Socialism at Its Worst
College is a giant freakin’ scam! I don’t know what disgusts me more about college. The medieval muumuus it forces its graduates to wear at graduation? The fundamentalist progressive culture it maintains with all the subtlety and good nature of a rampaging elephant? Or maybe it’s the debt slavery it foists upon any poor soul…
Government Can’t Save You from Compound Stupidity
Don’t ask me why, but lately I’ve been imbibing on a lot of British cultural decline via YouTube. Here are links to some of the documentaries I have watched. The Truth about Payday Loans Don’t Cap My Benefits Benefits Britain: Life on the Dole On Benefits and Proud! BBC Growing Up Poor If you get…
Are You Overtaxed?
It’s almost April. And the taxman will expect you to reconcile your tax bill soon. Have you overpaid or underpaid on your 2015 tax obligation? If you overpaid, you gave the taxman an interest-free loan. If you underpaid, you better have the money to make the taxman whole. Ah, the price we pay for civilization!…
Wanna Start A Business? Good Freakin’ Luck!
Sometime ago, I happened upon Anthony Bourdain on CNN. He was driving through Detroit with a buddy and observing the damage wrought by global trade, short-sighted unions, and decades of inept government. Detroit’s a mess. Here’s a picture from a blog that uses Google Streetview and Bing Streetview to chronicle the ongoing demise of the once mighty city.…
The Groovy Way to Lower the Cost of College
The cost of college is a major impediment to financial independence. Every dollar that is used to fund a 529 plan, or pay a student loan, or support a state’s university system, is one less dollar that can be contributed to a Roth IRA or a 401(k). For the past several decades, the game plan to…