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© Getty Images The second most striking feature of Biden’s so-called infrastructure plan, after the eye-popping figure of $2 trillion (Washington isn’t interested in billions these days), is its relative lack of capital investment in actual, tangible infrastructure. The American Jobs Plan is much less about “hard” infrastructure than it is about pursuing the Democratic Party’s ideals for societal change — including the Green New Deal — and centralizing control of every aspect of...

The Raven ...the record of history is absolutely crystal clear that there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system. - Milton Friedman on the Phil Donahue show "...What has always made the state a hell on earth has been precisely that man has tried to make it his heaven" -F.A. Hayek - The Road to Serfdom The powers delegated by the proposed Constit...

Zero-Covid debate highlights tough decisions awaiting every country

2020: Meh? or Yeah! Evaluating 2020 has been difficult.  The facts of this past year are available, in any form or flavor you want.  That complicates things.  If you lean progressive, believing centralized and authoritarian government should shape the directions and quality of humanity, you should be delighted.  Whether under the administration of the progressively-hated Trump, or despite it, human action has been constrained, deformed, warped and most certainly altered by authoritarian gov...

Opposed to enrollment increasing. and this is what paul ryan had to say on cbs today in terms of answering the question of who might lose coverage. >> how many people are going to lose coverage under this? >> i cant answer that question. its up to people heres the premise of your question. are you going to stop mandating people buy health insurance? people are going to do what they want to do with their lives because we believe in individual freedom in this country. the question is are we provid...

System, the fatal conceit of obamacare is that were going to make everybody by our health insurance at the federal government level, young and healthy people are going to go into the market and pay for the older sicker people. the young healthy person and it is going to be made to buy health care and for the person who gets breast cancer in her 40s or gets heart disease in his 50s. take a look this chart chart. the red slice here are what i would call people with pre-existing conditions. people ...

As i just described, choices are fleet, prices are going up and under the current system, the fatal conceit of obamacare is that were just going to make everybody buy our health insurance at the federal government level, young and healthy people are going to go into the market and pay for the older, sicker people. the young healthy person is going to be made to pay for health care and pay for the person who gets breast cancer in her 40s or heart disease in their 50s. take a look at this chart. t...

And every year, over and over again. and so you get people out there that just set things right and manage everything. it is what we called the fatal conceit. and it is fatal and they talk a good game. but they do not deliver anything nearly as good as they sound.