How to Achieve Freedom and Prosperity

I have no need for the welfare state, nor its associated high taxes and regulatory burdens, specifically because I practice individual responsibility. That's what everyone should do. It's the underlying theme of everything I stand for. Responsible people pay their own way, don't demand money from taxpayers, and don't need big government. That's the path to freedom and prosperity.

Stupid Tea Party Movement?

Those stupid Tea Party people.  I mean, believing in "Fiscal Responsibility, Constitutionally Limited Government, and Free Markets" is just plain dumb, right?

 

Instead, we should follow the proven path of recent decades for tax and spend policies, big government, and politically run markets.  Because everything has worked out so well that way.

Unions and Freedom

In a FREE society:

• Workers would be FREE to form an association, which they could call a "union."
• Other workers would be FREE to join or refuse to join this union.
• Employers would be FREE to recognize or ignore this union.

Unfortunately, we don't have a free society. Instead, workers can be FORCED to join a union and have fees confiscated from their wages, and employers are FORCED to deal with professional union bosses.

Subsidizing the Failure of Education

Economics teaches us the following:  When you subsidize something, you get more of it.  We've been subsidizing failing government schools for decades.  Why would anyone expect different results by throwing more money at failure.

 

Performance is correlated with competition.  We should issue vouchers and let free market schools, both non-profit and for-profit, compete in the free marketplace.  That's a more effective way of sorting out the winners and losers among educational methods and policies.