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.
- The left’s hatred of business is a lie
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The left doesn’t hate business. They hate you and me.
- The New Colossus Breathes Free
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There’s nothing wrong with The New Colossus except the way the institutional left has twisted it into meaning the opposite of what it actually says. Emma Lazarus wrote The New Colossus for the exiles of government-sponsored terror to escape their persecutors to a land of Freedom, not for letting their persecutors in to continue the persecution here.
- 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.
