I am going to take a brief break from my intense political neutrality, and current unbearably heavy workload, to make the case for people to join (and not necessarily vote for) the Civilian Party. On Facebook I noticed that the Civilian Party is 55 members short of the 500 it requires to get media funding/time […]
And to switch tack … The role of government is not to redistribute incomes, a process that leads to many with already reasonable claims on resources to simply demand (and be given) more from others. The government’s redistributionary focus should be on insurance in certain circumstances, helping those trapped in poverty, and those who start […]
Note: I know I’m not replying to comments right now, I’m very sorry. It isn’t you, it is me – this time of year is always pretty full on for me! Keep an eye out – in the next couple of weeks I will find time to turn around and comment back. Post will be […]
Similar to last week: People in society care about absolute differences in income not relative differences. As a result, in a growing society income inequality measures understate this concern.
Note: Renamed this from “Discussion Thursday” as I ended up inadvertently writing a post rather than a comment … Sorry, a bit busy to do real posts. Also wanted to get a discussion going on this excellent quote from Eric Crampton about using sugar taxes to pay for the “health care externality” from obesity/sugar consumption: […]
Unrelated note: I am not around too much atm, so as you may have noticed I am not replying to comments at the moment. I intend to catch up on the comments I missed later in the week, so please still comment. Things are a tad busy is all 😉 From the start of his […]