In the following video, British Parliament Member Daniel Hannan talks with Neil Cavuto about the dangers of tax hikes on bonuses paid to employees in the financial industry. The interview aired on Neil Cavuto’s Fox News program on 10 December 2009.
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Are people in America dying in the streets while every other civilized country provides healthcare to its citizens?
To answer this question, let’s first put the size of the healthcare problem in the U.S. into perspective.
Counting the Number of the Uninsured in America
When Obama ran for president, he touted health care reform as a big issue because there were 47 million people uninsured in America.
This figure comes from the Census Bureau. And according to the Census Bureau there were... Read More→
The fallacy and deception of the socialist policy always involves touting a supposed benefit while neglecting to consider its foul side effects. In 1883, Willian Graham Sumner articulated this in terms of the “Forgotten Man”:
As soon as A observes something which seems to him to be wrong, from which X is suffering, A talks it over with B, and A and B then propose to get a law passed to remedy the evil and help X. Their law always proposes to determine what C shall do for X or, in... Read More→
Sweden is a powerful example of the importance of public policy. The Nordic nation became rich between 1870 and 1970 when government was very small, but then began to stagnate as welfare state policies were implemented in the 1970s and 1980s. The CF&P Foundation (www.freedomandprosperity.org) video explains that Sweden is now shifting back to economic freedom in hopes of undoing the damage caused by an excessive welfare state.
And yes, the Swedish woman presenter also talks about “peeing... Read More→
In the following video, Steven Crowder goes undercover to investigate how it’s like to be treated by the Canadian health care system.
To the socialists viewing this: Yes, I know, I know, private insurance denies care to people as well, but –
1. Socialized medicine is worse.
2. If socialized medicine denies health care to people, why bother with it? Because…
3. …it leads to the usual avalanche of negative side-effects of socialism. One of which is that the…
4. …middle... Read More→
“Capitalism has great benefits but shortcomings too. Socialism eliminates the benefits, and does not solve its shortcomings.” – Capitalist in Chief, SocialismDoesntWork.com
Yes, it’s me, I said it. I see quite a number of Google searches in my logs on “who said capitalism has great benefits but shortcomings too. socialism eliminates the benefits, and does not solve its shortcomings.” So yes, it’s a SocialismDoesntWork.com original. Feel free to link... Read More→
“What’s Wrong with Socialism?” This is an interview clip created in HD from the documentary film “I Want Your Money” by Ray Griggs to be released in 2010. Mike Huckabee former Governor of Arkansas and Host of the Fox TV Show Huckabee. In it, Governor Huckabee talks about the peril democracies face once people determine they can vote money for themselves from the treasury.
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Crony capitalism is where private corporations recruit the government to serve their interests. Many people mistake this for an ill of capitalism. This line of thought often commences after a viewing of one of Michael Moore’s films.
And because of the outrageously voluminous occurrences of crony capitalism in the Obama administration, many staunch supporters of Obama then mistake him for someone who no longer cares for Karl Marx and think he somehow “betrayed” them.
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Thank you Democrats for giving us all such a supple example of big government and socialist modus operandi. These people just can’t help themselves because the ends always justify the means… and we’ve got to have a health care bill… anything… it’s a crisis…
So much of a crisis that labor unions, big supporters of the Democratic Party, have struck a deal, whereby their members would be exempt from a tax on high cost “Cadillac” health care plans... Read More→
One of the chief culprits responsible for the negative side effects (runaway spending, corruption, miss-allocation of resources) of big government socialist programs is that someone has to be in charge. Someone has to make decisions about distributing some one else’s money to affect the lives of yet others.
In this December ’09 podcast, Scientific American reports how “recent research finds that a feeling of entitlement to power can inspire hypocrisy.”
And hypocrisy, as... Read More→
