by Peter Venetoklis | May 30, 2019 | Economics, Politics, Taxation
Know that tip you leave for your servers at your favorite restaurant? It’s become the apple of someone’s eye. Many someones, actually. There’s been a movement afoot for a number of years to change how workers in traditionally tip-compensated jobs get...
by Eugene Darden Nicholas | May 12, 2019 | Drug Policy, Economics, Health, Politics, Taxation
Working as a paramedic, I’ve seen systemic failures in our way of managing homeless that combine ineffectuality with breathtaking expense. I’ve known individual homeless people whose use of the emergency services have cost the taxpayers hundreds of...
by Peter Venetoklis | May 2, 2019 | Economics, Education, Guns, Health, Opinion, Politics, Taxation
Even as the humanitarian crisis in Venezuela devolves to military suppression of the people and teeters on civil war, our own socialist-wannabes continue to promise free this, free that, and government jack boots on the necks of all those people and businesses that...
by Peter Venetoklis | Apr 28, 2019 | Culture, Opinion, Politics, Taxation
My Facebook feed recently offered me one of those “red meat” posts intended to stoke outrage and mockery. In this instance, it was purportedly (and I stress purportedly – too many people have no qualms about making stuff up, and too many more have no...
by Peter Venetoklis | Apr 20, 2019 | Culture, Opinion, Politics, Taxation
Almost instantly after the devastating fire at the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris captured world-wide attention, French (and other) billionaires started pledging large sums of money towards restoration. That was followed up by countless other pledges, large and small,...
by Peter Venetoklis | Mar 15, 2019 | Economics, Education, Politics, Taxation
The great thinker Milton Friedman, in a seminal interview with Phil Donahue, exposed one of the great, under-addressed flaws in the premise of socialism and its other central-planning variants: the fact that the people in charge are no different than the people they...
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