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Sam Harris Weighs In on Income Inequality
Sam Harris has a question about how conservatives would feel about extreme income inequality: And there is no reason to think that we have reached the upper bound of wealth inequality, as not every breakthrough in technology creates new jobs. … Continue reading
Warren Buffet’s Taxes
After Warren Buffet suggested that rich people like him should pay more taxes, conservatives predictably encouraged him to voluntarily give more money to the government if he so desperately desires to do so. (E.g., from Michelle Bachmann: “If he’s worried … Continue reading
Government Inefficiency and Disrespect towards Citizens
Here is the story of a Politico reporter who, taking Obama’s advice, tried to inquire with the USDA about rules and regulations related to noise pollution for farmers in Illinois. The reporter got passed around via phone and email from … Continue reading
Vibe-based Reporting
One point of contention in a debate about religion between Sam Harris, a prominent atheist, and Chris Hedges, the former New York Times Middle East Bureau Chief, was the issue of how common among Muslims worldwide is the support for … Continue reading
I hate how everything is a % of GDP
Here James Fallows shows a chart (reproduced at right) that indicates how taxes as a % of GDP are very low in the U.S. as compared to other developed nations. Then he suggests that in order to solve the deficit … Continue reading
Political Parties as Interest Groups
In their book The Declaration of Independents, Nick Gillespie and Matt Welch describe the Democratic and Republican parties as behaving like they are representing “interest groups.” One way to think of this is that the Democratic and Republican squabble with … Continue reading
Will Wilkinson on Norwegian Prisons
After describing Norway’s luxurious prisons and short prison sentences, Will Wilkinson suggests that we should consider making our justice system more like Norway’s in order to bring down our murder rate: Norway has one of the world’s lowest murder rates. … Continue reading
Tea Partiers and Debt Ceiling: the Silver Lining
Some Republicans, including presidential candidate Michele Bachmann, say we should not raise the debt ceiling. Most others (including me) disagree: they believe that Timmy Geithner is telling the truth when he says we’d face a disaster if we failed to … Continue reading
Bill Clinton Wrong on 14th Amendment
Bill Clinton says he’d solve the debt ceiling problem by invoking the 14th amendment (which establishes that the “validity of the public debt… cannot be questioned”) the U.S. from defaulting if an agreement couldn’t be reached: “‘I think the Constitution … Continue reading
Is what a politician does with his animals his own business?
Some people (for convenience, I’ll use the word “liberals” to refer to those people) argued in the wake of the Weiner scandal that politicians’ personal lives should not be our concern. They can’t really believe that, though. Suppose a politician … Continue reading