COVID Crisis Could Push 100 Million People into Extreme Poverty, New World Bank Study Says
July 1, 2020 – Jon Miltimore …… The surge in extreme global poverty would be the first increase since 1998. Continue reading →
Pope Francis Owes It to the Poor to Be More Informed about Markets
January 28, 2020 – Antony Davies, James R. Harrigan …… For the sake of the poor, it’s time for Pope Francis to get a better understanding of basic economics. Continue reading →
Entitlement Liabilities Are a Graver Threat to the Next Generation of Americans Than Climate Change
January 23, 2020 – John Phelan …… We are on the brink of inter-generational strife. We have the political shortsightedness of decades past to thank for that. Continue reading →
The Myth That People Work Harder Under Capitalism
December 29, 2019 – Barry Brownstein …… Capitalism has been the great engine of unimagined prosperity and unimagined improvements in worker conditions. Continue reading →
Why We Should (Freely) Give to the Poor this Christmas Season
December 22, 2019 – Lawrence W. Reed …… True compassion is helping others out of a genuine sense of caring and brotherhood. It is not asking your legislator or congressman to do it for you. Continue reading →
Why a “Billionaire” Wealth Tax Would Hurt the Working Poor and the Middle Class
December 18, 2019 – Mark Hornshaw …… Although the wealth tax was drafted with the poor in mind, its passing could cause them more harm than benefit. Continue reading →
Bernie Sanders’s Upside-Down Concept of “Morality”
September 10, 2019 – Bradley Thomas …… Sanders’s and other progressives’ blustering about “morality” is really a smokescreen designed to distract from their vision of a society organized around the threat of government aggression against innocents who simply want to mind their own business. Continue reading →
The Welfare State is Tearing Sweden Apart
June 4, 2019 – Jon Nylander …… The welfare state is a key ingredient in sowing social mistrust and discord among diverse groups in Sweden. Continue reading →
Student Debt Cancellation: Charity or Force?
May 30, 2019 – Jacob Hornberger …… There is a fundamental difference between voluntary charity and mandatory “charity.” Continue reading →
Liberty Means Repealing, not Reforming, Social Security
April 16, 2019 – Jacob G. Hornberger …… Liberty necessary entails the absence of infringements on liberty. Therefore, the attainment of a free society necessarily entails a lifting, dismantling, or repeal of infringements on liberty. Continue reading →