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What if choices matter? For decades, policy experts have debated why intergenerational poverty persists in the richest nation on earth. Billions of dollars in government interventions are poured into antipoverty initiatives each year, yet generational poverty remains remarkably entrenched in…
Let’s pay everyone, and then collect enough taxes from the productive for it. What could go wrong? Anyone who has spent ten minutes looking at the American safety net knows it is completely broken. Right now, the federal government runs…
Why is the taxpayer funding this? For decades, Americans have been told that a four-year college degree is the indispensable ticket to the middle class. Federal and state governments promised that by flooding universities with subsidized student loans, direct institutional…
It is a composite of three problems: compulsory attendance laws, taxpayer funding, and educational monopolies. We have been conditioned to view the government school system as a sacred civic pillar—an indispensable public good that binds communities together. But stripped of…
What if there isn’t actually a gap? Few economic charts circulate with more indignation than the famous “wedge” graph: the line showing worker productivity climbing steadily upward since the early 1970s while average wages appear to flatline. For millions of…
If we change the unit of measure… If you walk through a grocery store or look at current mortgage rates and feel like Washington’s official inflation numbers bear zero resemblance to your monthly bank statement, you are not losing your…
Draining the value of dollars. Every time politicians and commentators discuss inflation, they speak as if it were a natural disaster—an unpredictable storm that somehow swept across the grocery aisles and housing markets. They blame supply chains, foreign wars, or…
Our dollars aren’t what we think they are. Most discussions about central banking get bogged down in technical jargon about basis points, overnight repo facilities, and open-market operations. But beneath the veneer of complex financial engineering lies a fundamental moral…
Interest paying are a massive tax drain. There is a point where financial mismanagement stops being an accounting failure and becomes an urgent moral crisis. In Washington, the national debt is routinely discussed with eyes glazed over, dismissed as an…
The Cost of Regulation We often treat terms like “regulatory drag” as bloodless economic abstractions—debates over Federal Register page counts, administrative compliance costs, or fractional GDP slowdowns. But stripped of bureaucratic jargon, over-regulation is fundamentally a moral question about justice,…
