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https://jeffjacoby.com/28453/84-years-of-not-suffering-fools
84 years of not suffering fools
by Jeff Jacoby — December 7, 2020
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Walter E. Williams taught economics to university students for 47 years, the last 40 of them at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va. He taught his class as usual last Tuesday, then died suddenly some hours later. His death did not go unnoticed — lengthy obituaries appeared in both the New York Times and the Washington Post — but the news ricocheted with particular velocity through the world of conservatives, libertarians, and free-market economists: To us, Walter Williams was a rock star.
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From How to Live in Peace (2017):
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The liberty-oriented solution to the school prayer issue is simple. We should acknowledge the fact that though there is public financing of primary and secondary education, it doesn’t follow that there should be public production of education. . . .
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I read Walter Williams as soon as I found out about him. He led me to Thomas Soul. Together they formed my opinions on Gooferment, Gooferment Skrules, politicians, and bureaucrats.
Clearly and concisely, they demolished the welfare / warfare state with its one-size fit all solutions. Good thing the Gooferment doesn’t produce shoes.
Argh!
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https://jeffjacoby.com/27794/in-argentina-milei-exhilarating-chainsaw
In Argentina, Milei’s exhilarating chainsaw revolution is underway
by Jeff Jacoby The Boston Globe
May 19, 2024
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Through it all, Milei keeps “making the argument,” as Matthew Lynn wrote recently in The Telegraph. Underneath his brash style he is committed to serious economic and philosophical ideas —about free markets, individual liberty, and a smaller state. Like the economics professor he was for 20 years, he wants people to understand the case he makes for the efficacy of competition and the harms caused by overbearing governments. Everywhere politicians are addicted to subsidies, price controls, deficit spending, and corporate welfare. It is exhilarating to see a national leader who has a radically different vision and champions it unapologetically.
Jeff Jacoby is a columnist for The Boston Globe.
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One an only hope that this catches on with “We, The Sheeple”. “Soft landing” might be possible if we get rid of all the mochers, parasitic politicians, and useless bureaucrats!
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https://jeffjacoby.com/27330/jeff-bezos-moves-to-florida-leaving-washington
Jeff Bezos moves to Florida, leaving Washington — and its rising tax burden — behind
by Jeff Jacoby — The Boston Globe — November 8, 2023
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But as the Tax Foundation’s lead researcher, Jared Walczak, immediately observed, Bezos is almost certainly going to save money — a lot of money — once he is no longer subject to Washington’s tax laws.
To begin with, Washington has a new capital gains tax, which was upheld by the state’s highest court in March. The tax takes a 7 percent bite of all investment gains above $250,000. In 2020 and 2021, when Bezos sold several million shares of Amazon stock, the proceeds totaled $15.7 billion. Assuming he disposed of stock he had owned since Amazon went public in 1997, Walczak calculated, Bezos “saved nearly $1.1 billion in taxes by selling those shares before the new state capital gains tax went into effect.” By relocating to Florida, he ensures that future stock sales will likewise remain untouched by Washington’s new capital gains levy.
That’s not all.
Washington had no estate tax during the years when Bezos was building Amazon into a commercial giant, but that changed after 2005. Now Washington has the steepest death tax in the nation, with a top rate of 20 percent on estates worth more than $9 million. Florida, on the other hand, has no estate tax at all. For a man with a personal fortune of more than $160 billion, the move from Washington to Florida could be worth $30 billion or more to his heirs.
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The “rich” can move to avoid taxes; what about the “little” people … …
… … who can’t afford to move. Don’t think that the taxes are only on the “rich”. Inflation ensures that everyone is hit. Maybe not equally, but enough to hurt. And, they have no choice but to stand and take it.
Argh!
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https://jeffjacoby.com/27202/the-schoolboy-and-the-gadsden-flag
The schoolboy and the Gadsden flag
by Jeff Jacoby
Arguable
September 5, 2023
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Washington is more of a gerontocracy than ever — no president has ever been older and the median age of the current Senate is 65.3 years, a record high. Though some House freshmen are in their 40s or younger, the median age in that chamber, too, is the highest it’s ever been. McConnell’s brain-freeze episodes, Biden’s moments of obvious confusion, and the tragic evidence of Feinstein’s cognitive decline keep raising questions about the age and health of America’s political leaders. Actually, they keep raising just one question: What do we do about geriatric officeholders who refuse to relax their grip on power?
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The Dead Old White Guys didn’t anticipate that a gerontocracy would occur.
Let’s pick an age — say full social security age — for politicians to retire.
If they are in an office when they have that fateful birthday, then they are deemed to have died in office and whatever process is in place for a death is used to replace them.
If they refuse to go, then someone can just shoot them under Marque and Reprisal power.
Argh!
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https://jeffjacoby.com/26719/as-any-economist-can-tell-mayor-wu-rent-control
As any economist can tell Mayor Wu, rent control never works
by Jeff Jacoby
The Boston Globe
January 29, 2023
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From the other side of the aisle, the renowned conservative economist Thomas Sowell agrees. Rent control policies, he said in a 2019 interview, turn everyone into losers:
“The tenants lose because they can’t find a place to stay. Landlords lose because they don’t make the profit they would have made otherwise. The builders lose because there’s no demand for apartment buildings if no one can make a profit on them.” By and large, observed Sowell, politicians are the only class of people who come out ahead. “They get the reputation of being for the poor and the downtrodden [and] preventing the evil landlords from raising the rent.”
As if that isn’t enough, rent control is infamous among economists for other negative impacts. It exacerbates racial discrimination in housing. It multiplies bureaucracy. It disproportionately hurts those it is intended to help. And what is true in America is true everywhere. When rent control has been tried in other countries, from Canada to Germany to Sweden, the outcomes have been dismal. Even communist Vietnam abandoned rent control after its destructive impact became apparent.
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Why do “we” have to keep reinventing the wheel? “We, The Sheeple” should immediately give any politician or bureaucrat that mentions “rent control” the pitchfork and torches treatment.
Argh!
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https://jeffjacoby.com/26689/when-whataboutism-is-appropriate
When ‘whataboutism’ is appropriate
by Jeff Jacoby The Boston Globe
January 15, 2023
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“Whataboutism,” a term much in fashion in political circles these days, is a pejorative reference to a very old and familiar argument: A’s bad behavior can’t be condemned because B engaged in bad behavior too.
The term dates back to the Cold War. It was the label given to a tactic perfected by Soviet propagandists. If Western critics blasted Moscow’s crimes in Afghanistan, the persecution of dissidents, or the horrors of the Gulag, trained Soviet flacks would respond with knee-jerk “whataboutism”: What about racism in America? What about Watergate? What about riots in US cities?
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Sorry, but you can’t distract from the point being made about your bad behavior by pointing to someone else’s bad behavior.
Each “counter example” may be worthy of its own discussion, but stick to the point at hand.
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https://jeffjacoby.com/26666/the-school-that-sabotaged-its-standout-students
The school that sabotaged its standout students
by Jeff Jacoby The Boston Globe
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It is hard to overstate the outrageousness of this betrayal, but it reflects the school district’s stated determination to “produce equal outcomes for every student, without exception.” Taken literally, such a policy requires the dumbing-down of classroom expectations to the lowest common denominator. It means that high-scoring students must on no account be encouraged to excel.
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“Catholic school taught them that it was their obligation, and could even be a mortal sin, if you didn’t use all your talents to the greater glory of God.” — “Chapter Fifty — Samaritans going to Jericho / Monday November 5, 1962 – Church Day + 17 (continues)” CHURCH 10●19●62 Volume 1 Page 296
I was never a willing student, but I was always “encouraged” — sometimes with physical violence — to do my best.
Now, seven decades later, I realize how important that encouragement is. We don’t have “corporal punishment” like in my day, but sometimes — to refer to the old joke about the farmer and the stubborn mule — sometimes “you need to get the student’s attention”. I like when the student is encourage to learn what they want and when they want to learn. Maybe we have lost the American ethic to “work hard and smart”.
I admire the Asian family influence over children and the importance of education. It’s a shame that black students equate being educated with “acting white”. We’ve failed them. The late Walter Williams came from the segregated Philly school system where poor performance was just unacceptable. He attributed his success to the encouragement he got then.
Bottom line for me is that the Gooferment has take over “education” and “achieved” diminishing results and an ever expanding cost.
In the tax revolt of the 1970 in the Pepuls Republik of Nu Jerzee, I urged a “Forty Year” plan to move from the current system to a free market solution. The first 20 years was a series of 5% liberations of students from the requirement to attend a local public school with a “green voucher” to but whatever education is best for them. The second 20 years was a series of 5% reduction in the amount of those vouchers. At the end of 40 years, the problem would be solved.
But, as ususal, politics and the “teachers’ union” was impossible to overcome.
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https://jeffjacoby.com/26644/real-id-was-a-real-mistake-and-congress-should
Real ID was a real mistake and Congress should scrap it at last
by Jeff Jacoby
The Boston Globe
December 28, 2022
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“If fully implemented, the law would facilitate the tracking of data on individuals and bring government into the very center of every citizen’s life,” warns the American Civil Liberties Union. Real ID would make Americans’ personal information available to a vast network of federal, state, and local officials — an irresistible lure to overreaching government snoops, to say nothing of a mother lode for identity thieves. Even worse, the requirement that all driver’s licenses and ID cards have an unencrypted barcode puts that personal information within the grasp of anyone with an electronic scanner.
In authoritarian countries, it is taken for granted that citizens must always have their identification forms with them and that governments have a presumptive right to demand information about any individual at any time. That is not the American way. Here, the presumption is that the national government does not have an automatic claim to personal information and may not track individuals at will without probable cause to suspect wrongdoing.
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“Where are your papers!”
Every Nazi-involved movie always had this trope in it. And, it should be a warning of the slippery slope.
Americans don’t need Gooferment “papers” to exist.
And, after we have seen how respectful the Deep State is to the First Amendment, why would we give them anything that could be misused.
#repealrealid #endthefed #endthefbi #endthecia
And on … and on … and on!
“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand? . . .”
— Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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