economics

Compulsory Charity

כ״ט בטבת ה׳תש״ע (Friday 15 January 2010)

When the state tells us that we must give such-and-such a percent of our earnings to charity, in our disgust, we simply let the state confiscate those earnings and use them as it desires. That is taxation. How is it any different – how is it not taxation – if Goldman Sachs compels its employees [...]

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Water Shortage

כ״ז בטבת ה׳תש״ע (Wednesday 13 January 2010)

The notion of there being a “water shortage” calls to mind the old observation that countries with relatively good governments experience drought, while countries with relatively terrible governments experience famine. In effect drought and famine are caused by the same thing, or they are the same thing: a lack of rain. But in one case, [...]

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Discrimination

כ״ד בכסלו ה׳תש״ע (Friday 11 December 2009)

When I went to college years ago in America, I took a constitutional law class with a professor so fanatic and bloodthirsty that she made me feel uncomfortable as a male to attend the lectures (I passed it by cramming with the help of an arch-feminist who later became a lesbian – see, I don’t [...]

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