by Sally Oh | Apr 25, 2013 | Education, Jobs, Tax Incentives
According to government, Kentucky tax incentives are for business investment. We in the private sector call ’em bribes. The New York Times recently ran a report on state and local tax incentives. Kentucky spends at least $1.41 billion per year on incentive...
by Runaway Slave | Dec 13, 2011 | bailouts, Bubble, Education, Libertarian Curmudgeon
I have a college degree that I earned 40 years ago. I can honestly say it has never earned me a cent. Whatever the government pumps easy money into will eventually find itself in a price bubble. Housing is the most recent and most obvious bubble, but it’s not...
by Runaway Slave | Jul 25, 2009 | Education, Libertarian Curmudgeon
And here’s Art’s idea about the math that’s really important to know.
by Runaway Slave | Jun 4, 2008 | Education, Essays & Articles, Guns & Gun Control, Libertarian Curmudgeon
Manliness has fallen into disrepute in the parts of the world where people like to think of themselves as civilized. Even the word, manliness, has gained an almost Victorian quaintness, slightly silly, as outdated as straw boaters and spats. Feminism rules our public...
by Runaway Slave | Aug 15, 2007 | Costa Rica, Education, Essays & Articles, Hope, Libertarian Curmudgeon
Gabrielle is 11 years old. She’s four and a half feet tall and doesn’t weigh much more than a couple sacks of groceries. Her black hair shines in the dim light of the dingy classroom as she nervously twirls it in the fingers of her right hand. Her eyes are almost...
by Runaway Slave | May 3, 2007 | Education, Essays & Articles, Guns & Gun Control, Libertarian Curmudgeon
Mass murder invariably gets the Victim Disarmament Lobby into a lather promoting safety through helplessness. The Virginia Tech shooting is no exception. A brief but honest look at how the world works, however, should convince any but the most craven cowards that...
by Runaway Slave | Feb 7, 2007 | Education, Essays & Articles, Freedom, Government, Libertarian Curmudgeon, Liberty, Socialism
“The Youth of today is ever the people of tomorrow. For this reason we have set before ourselves the task of inoculating our youth with the spirit of this community of the people at a very early age, at an age when human beings are still unperverted and...
by Runaway Slave | Apr 5, 2006 | Costa Rica, Education, Essays & Articles, Libertarian Curmudgeon, Politics, Socialism, Taxes
There are two distinct classes of men…those who pay taxes and those who receive and live upon taxes. — Thomas Paine Living in a shamelessly socialist country I am occasionally surprised by the candor of members of the local tax consuming class even if they do fall far...
