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Christopher E. Baecker
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No government employee or bureaucracy can pretend to know about an individual/family’s plight. The solution to poverty on their end is very simple: stop making things worse.
I think I’d rather have my senses assaulted by a death metal concert than a Nobel Laureate who doesn’t give the full picture of our current condition.
When supply chains were broken apart and governments simply handed out cash to people whose jobs evaporated, it was a perfect storm for skyrocketing prices.
What is lacking is the same thing that is absent from lumbering government operations: competition and the threat of going out of business.
If we’re really concerned about “mechanism(s) to incentivize good work,” how about clicking the “refund” button on these ethically-questionable high-dollar donations?
The U.S. Constitution permits such seizures in the interests of “public use,” though not “without just compensation.”
In a way, the property tax is the most egregious tax.
Economics is not that complicated. The world has been worse off since we’ve portrayed the “dismal science” to be so.
The only polls that matter are those on Election Day.