We Read Hillary’s Book So You Don’t Have To
30 Apr 2018 Leave a comment
in politics - USA Tags: 2016 presidential election
Explaining the NHS single payer health care system to @SenSanders
29 Apr 2018 Leave a comment
in health economics, politics - USA Tags: economics of health insurance
In “$2.00 a day: living on almost nothing on America”, Edin and Shaefer argued welfare reform led to a surge in extreme poverty, families living in ‘extreme destitution’!
29 Apr 2018 Leave a comment
in labour economics, politics - USA, poverty and inequality Tags: 1996 federal welfare reforms, child poverty, family poverty
With friends @nzprocom @moturesearch commenting like this, a zero carbon economy policy won’t survive to face its enemies
28 Apr 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, economics of bureaucracy, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice Tags: climate alarmism
#VirtueSignalling @nzprocom wants a great big increase in an old tax
27 Apr 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice, public economics Tags: carbon pricing, carbon tax
#VirtueSignalling @nzprocom on bit players leading the way in global public good supply
27 Apr 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: free riding, international public goods
The Unfortunate Truth About The Civil War
26 Apr 2018 Leave a comment
in economic history, politics - USA Tags: American Civil War
Sociologists blame inequality for trends in crime? Murders down from 100 per year to zero so far this year
23 Apr 2018 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, labour economics, law and economics, politics - USA, poverty and inequality Tags: law and order
Was the Reformation founded on hate speech?
22 Apr 2018 Leave a comment
in economics of religion, politics - New Zealand Tags: 2017 New Zealand election, free speech, political correctness
Was at a rainbow forum last year that called for a ban on hate speech. The host venue was a church whose founding article of faith included denouncing the pope as the Antichrist. Could not work out from Google if and when they backed away from that unkind accusation.
Chapple and Boston on benefit fraud
21 Apr 2018 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, politics - New Zealand, welfare reform
Penni Ha’penny You have probably cherry-picked figures out of context. At any one time possibly 10% of beneficiaries ARE working full-time – on temporary jobs for a week or a month – and it has to be declared and no benefit received for those weeks. Temporary work is all some people can get. About a third aren’t looking for work? If true, this could well be the number of people who hav , in a governmental sleight of hand, been shifted from Sickness and Invalid Benefits onto Jobseeker with Medical Exemption – the dole, but with no requirement to look for work. Because you can’t work. Ridiculous system.
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