Search results for: “walter williams”
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Congress Continues Push to Restrict Credit Access
Capping interest rates on credit cards will just discourage issuers from taking a risk on lower-income borrowers.
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The Trolley Problem of Taxation: Should DOGE Savings Go to Taxpayers?
The unfortunate reality is that someone must pay for the profligacy of decades of spendthrift politicians in Washington, DC. But the question of who must pay is an important one.
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Capping Credit Card Interest Rates is a Bipartisan Blunder
Interests rates reflect the risk of lending. Under price controls, card companies will reduce credit limits and lend to fewer borrowers.
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Where Will the New Jobs Come From?
“Technological innovations and falling trade barriers make many people more productive… We use this new wealth to create opportunities in high-skill, medium-skill, and low-skill occupations.” ~Art Carden
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Money First, People Last?
“Higher corporate tax rates will bring about exactly what people like Senator Hawley fear: the control of the market in the hands of a few key players by means of force.” ~Thomas Savidge
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Take the Government Out of GDP
“Tax revenues are harvested from private citizens by means of coercion and extractive measures… Paying taxes to remain free of incarceration or not face withering financial penalties is hardly indicative of cooperative exchange. ” ~Tom Savidge and Peter C. Earle
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Is Learning Standard “White” English Oppressive for Black Students?
“The ‘anti-racist’ writing notions abounding today disempower black students…and actually get in the way of constructive actions. Obsessing over ‘white privilege’ doesn’t help black students succeed.” ~George Leef
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Chris Rock Portrays the Tragicomedy of the Minimum Wage
“Much has improved in race relations since Martin Luther King. But the same cannot be said of the laws governing labor markets.” ~Scott Drylie
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Thomas Sowell, Social Justice Fallacies
“We might agree that ‘equal chances for all’ would be desirable. But that in no way guarantees that we have either the knowledge or the power required to make that goal attainable.” ~Gary M. Galles
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More Self-Interested Union Altruism
“Whenever someone claims an altruistic reason to support a policy, but it clearly advances their narrow self-interest, the latter effect can explain such support, regardless of whether it helps or even hurts the supposed beneficiaries.” ~ Gary M. Galles
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Congress Continues Push to Restrict Credit Access
Capping interest rates on credit cards will just discourage issuers from taking a risk on lower-income borrowers.
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The Trolley Problem of Taxation: Should DOGE Savings Go to Taxpayers?
The unfortunate reality is that someone must pay for the profligacy of decades of spendthrift politicians in Washington, DC. But the question of who must pay is an important one.
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•
Capping Credit Card Interest Rates is a Bipartisan Blunder
Interests rates reflect the risk of lending. Under price controls, card companies will reduce credit limits and lend to fewer borrowers.
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•
Where Will the New Jobs Come From?
“Technological innovations and falling trade barriers make many people more productive… We use this new wealth to create opportunities in high-skill, medium-skill, and low-skill occupations.” ~Art Carden
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•
Money First, People Last?
“Higher corporate tax rates will bring about exactly what people like Senator Hawley fear: the control of the market in the hands of a few key players by means of force.” ~Thomas Savidge
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•
Take the Government Out of GDP
“Tax revenues are harvested from private citizens by means of coercion and extractive measures… Paying taxes to remain free of incarceration or not face withering financial penalties is hardly indicative of cooperative exchange. ” ~Tom Savidge and Peter C. Earle
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Is Learning Standard “White” English Oppressive for Black Students?
“The ‘anti-racist’ writing notions abounding today disempower black students…and actually get in the way of constructive actions. Obsessing over ‘white privilege’ doesn’t help black students succeed.” ~George Leef
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Chris Rock Portrays the Tragicomedy of the Minimum Wage
“Much has improved in race relations since Martin Luther King. But the same cannot be said of the laws governing labor markets.” ~Scott Drylie
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•
Thomas Sowell, Social Justice Fallacies
“We might agree that ‘equal chances for all’ would be desirable. But that in no way guarantees that we have either the knowledge or the power required to make that goal attainable.” ~Gary M. Galles
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•
More Self-Interested Union Altruism
“Whenever someone claims an altruistic reason to support a policy, but it clearly advances their narrow self-interest, the latter effect can explain such support, regardless of whether it helps or even hurts the supposed beneficiaries.” ~ Gary M. Galles