US politicians are engaged in passionate debate and confrontation over the debt limit and spending. The question is whether to “cut†two trillion over the next ten years, which is to say, about two hundred billion dollars a year, which is to say, whether, after ten years, spending will be five or six trillion dollars a year more than it is now, or whether it will be five or six trillion dollars a year more than it is now, assuming …
Category: politics
How well run is Oslo?
According to the bloggers who speak for our ruling elite (such as Matthew Yglesias) Norway is wonderfully well run. But according to the terrorist Breivik, it is run much like Chicago, where the ruling party’s political mobilization of the disproportionately criminal underclass has produced a criminal party.
Rational terrorism
A lot of people, myself included, have suggested that Breivik’s terrorism was unlikely to be effective, but he has information we did not.
A preliminary review of the works of Anders Behring Breivik
Shortly before killing a bunch of people, mainly the children of the elite, Breivik published two works:
Shot the organ grinder
Anders Behring Breivik shot the organ grinder instead of the monkey, the puppeteer, not the puppet.
Obama’s connections
If you read blogs like this, you probably already know that Obama’s family and friends on both the black and white sides were communists and terrorists for three generations.
“Don’t call my bluff†says Obama
“Don’t call my bluff†says President Obama, thereby implicitly admitting he is bluffing.
Solving the immigration problem
Roissy complains that Libertarians are in favor of open borders and that open borders are having disastrous consequences. But what is having disastrous consequences is not open borders by themselves, but open borders combined with democracy and the welfare state. Even if the government had the will to stop the flood of low IQ migrants, the effect would be limited. Does not stop drugs.
“The Barbarian Invasionsâ€
I watched an old 2003 movie, “The Barbarian Invasions†which the right love, because it depicts the ruling progressive left elite as decadent, corrupt, hypocritical, incompetent and destroying the civilization that they rule, and the ruling progressive elite love, perhaps because it is about their favorite topic, themselves.
Taxing beyond the laffer maximum
Why do governments tax beyond the Laffer maxium? You have probably read about the California’s Amazon tax. Amazon said it would flee the tax, promptly did so, and so, predictably, instead of gaining two hundred million, the state lost taxes on something like one hundred and fifty million of income.