Negative Space: misleading terminology
- Austerity is not the only answer
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According to the Financial Times, Austerity is not the only answer to a debt problem. The other answer is a paywall.
- The austerity of the drunkard
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If you’re an alcoholic and you redefine “abstinence” to mean “drink more”, you might very well solve your drinking problem: by killing yourself.
- Austerity really means raising taxes
- When Paul Krugman claims that austerity is a failure, he defines it as cutting spending; but in fact, his examples are all of countries that raised taxes often along with raising spending.
- Beware the Austerity of the Politician
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Austerity, to politicians, doesn’t mean what you think it means.
- Definitionally dodging recession responsibility
- You’re in a recession when the economy’s doing well; you’re out of it when the economy sucks. Ignore that mortgage crisis behind the curtain.
- The Destruction of Title IX
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If you put the government in charge of a desert, in fifty years you’ll have a shortage of sand. If you put the government in charge of protecting women, in fifty years you’ll have government-sponsored violence against women.
- Economic misterminology: recessions that never end
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When we remove causes and effects from our descriptions of economic events, such as recessions, we lose our ability to change for the better.
- Exchanging the market for high prices and corruption
- The Democratic health insurance exchange looks like it’s going to make many of the same mistakes politicians made in California when they tried to choke electrical power through a power exchange.
- Garbage in, garbage out economics
- Given the pointless definition of a recession, is it any wonder people are confused about the recovery?
- Lazlo Hollyfeld on the electric car
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The problems with electric cars are insurmountable without completely new battery technology that no one who wants to mandate battery-powered cars is looking for. Almost as if the real purpose of electric cars is not transportation, but anti-transportation.
- Please take pity on this health care orphan
- Yeah, because of a massive regulatory bill that kills job creation, young adults don’t have jobs, and because they don’t have jobs, they don’t have health insurance.
- Pluto is not a planet, and other respectable murders
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If Pluto is not a planet, and tomatoes are not vegetables, then austerity can mean higher taxes and more spending.
- TXU bets against deregulation and loses
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TXU was once the government-sponsored monopoly energy provider in Texas. They just went bankrupt, apparently because they expected a free market to act like a government market.
- Vodka Economics
- Stephen Green’s light bulb: “corporations don’t pay taxes. Not one red cent. They never have and they never will, even if you jack up the corporate rate to infinity-percent-plus-one.”
- Why do gun owners think the left wants to take our guns?
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Gun owners think the left wants to take away guns because the left keeps refusing commonsense gun laws in favor of laws that ban guns.
