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June 22, 2017
Private sector creates wealth, jobs, better lives. Public sector just sponges. Who’s virtuous, again?
https://thefederalist.com/2017/05/25/dont-income-inequality-problem-egomania-problem/
Falling household income? Statistics flawed; don’t account for fewer earners/household. Per capita income up.
https://thefederalist.com/2017/05/25/dont-income-inequality-problem-egomania-problem/
Obama whines about inequality again while making $13,000 a minute. Sheesh.
http://bwcentral.org/2017/06/obama-complains-about-income-inequality-while-making-13000-a-minute/
Marxism is ‘emancipatory’? Really, Professor Wright? Tell it to Marxism’s 100 million corpses and make’em dance.
http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/uw-madison-offers-course-evils-capitalism
Universal Basic Income criticized as ‘payments to millionaires’; also, welfare recipients would be net losers
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/jun/09/chris-bowen-attacks-universal-basic-income-as-payments-to-millionaires
“Professor who teaches class bashing capitalism earns $170,000 annually” #CryMeaRiver
https://www.thecollegefix.com/post/33571/
Government policies are to blame for inequality - zoning, college savings plans, etc.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/ct-column-keilman-dream-hoarders-met-20170616-story.html
‘HipHoponomics’ bringing Adam Smith, Milton Friedman, and freedom to high schoolers
http://dailysignal.com/2017/06/21/hip-hop-teaching-free-markets-kids/
Private sector creates wealth, jobs, better lives. Public sector just sponges. Who’s virtuous, again?
https://thefederalist.com/2017/05/25/dont-income-inequality-problem-egomania-problem/
Falling household income? Statistics flawed; don’t account for fewer earners/household. Per capita income up.
https://thefederalist.com/2017/05/25/dont-income-inequality-problem-egomania-problem/
Obama whines about inequality again while making $13,000 a minute. Sheesh.
http://bwcentral.org/2017/06/obama-complains-about-income-inequality-while-making-13000-a-minute/
Marxism is ‘emancipatory’? Really, Professor Wright? Tell it to Marxism’s 100 million corpses and make’em dance.
http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/uw-madison-offers-course-evils-capitalism
Universal Basic Income criticized as ‘payments to millionaires’; also, welfare recipients would be net losers
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/jun/09/chris-bowen-attacks-universal-basic-income-as-payments-to-millionaires
“Professor who teaches class bashing capitalism earns $170,000 annually” #CryMeaRiver
https://www.thecollegefix.com/post/33571/
Government policies are to blame for inequality - zoning, college savings plans, etc.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/ct-column-keilman-dream-hoarders-met-20170616-story.html
‘HipHoponomics’ bringing Adam Smith, Milton Friedman, and freedom to high schoolers
http://dailysignal.com/2017/06/21/hip-hop-teaching-free-markets-kids/
June 15, 2017
Flaw in Universal Basic Income theory – lenders won’t lend, b/c cushioned entrepreneurs make stupid decisions
https://www.forbes.com/forbes/welcome/?toURL=https://www.forbes.com/sites/washingtonbytes/2017/06/06/universal-basic-income-is-not-an-innovation-policy/&refURL=https://www.google.com/&referrer=https://www.google.com/
Universal Basic Income won’t motivate entrepreneurs, b/c other gov’t safety net programs already exist
https://www.forbes.com/forbes/welcome/?toURL=https://www.forbes.com/sites/washingtonbytes/2017/06/06/universal-basic-income-is-not-an-innovation-policy/&refURL=https://www.google.com/&referrer=https://www.google.com/
Universal Basic Income theory founders on inability to define ‘basic’.
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-06-04/universal-basic-income-is-neither-universal-nor-basic
Another flaw in Universal Basic Income theory: automation will hit developing world much harder than U.S.
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-06-04/universal-basic-income-is-neither-universal-nor-basic
Universal Basic Income assumption flawed - ‘Jobless future’ a fantasy; more eldercare needed in aging societies.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/innovations/wp/2017/06/09/why-universal-basic-income-and-tax-breaks-wont-save-us-from-the-jobless-future/
Universal Basic Income not up to the job of addressing supposed cataclysmic jobless future
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/innovations/wp/2017/06/09/why-universal-basic-income-and-tax-breaks-wont-save-us-from-the-jobless-future/
Universal Basic Income “will not solve the social problems that come from loss of people’s purpose in life”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/innovations/wp/2017/06/09/why-universal-basic-income-and-tax-breaks-wont-save-us-from-the-jobless-future/
“The OECD says universal basic income could make poverty worse”
https://qz.com/999496/the-oecd-says-the-universal-basic-income-could-make-poverty-worse-but-they-make-some-weird-assumptions/
Flaw in Universal Basic Income theory – lenders won’t lend, b/c cushioned entrepreneurs make stupid decisions
https://www.forbes.com/forbes/welcome/?toURL=https://www.forbes.com/sites/washingtonbytes/2017/06/06/universal-basic-income-is-not-an-innovation-policy/&refURL=https://www.google.com/&referrer=https://www.google.com/
Universal Basic Income won’t motivate entrepreneurs, b/c other gov’t safety net programs already exist
https://www.forbes.com/forbes/welcome/?toURL=https://www.forbes.com/sites/washingtonbytes/2017/06/06/universal-basic-income-is-not-an-innovation-policy/&refURL=https://www.google.com/&referrer=https://www.google.com/
Universal Basic Income theory founders on inability to define ‘basic’.
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-06-04/universal-basic-income-is-neither-universal-nor-basic
Another flaw in Universal Basic Income theory: automation will hit developing world much harder than U.S.
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-06-04/universal-basic-income-is-neither-universal-nor-basic
Universal Basic Income assumption flawed - ‘Jobless future’ a fantasy; more eldercare needed in aging societies.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/innovations/wp/2017/06/09/why-universal-basic-income-and-tax-breaks-wont-save-us-from-the-jobless-future/
Universal Basic Income not up to the job of addressing supposed cataclysmic jobless future
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/innovations/wp/2017/06/09/why-universal-basic-income-and-tax-breaks-wont-save-us-from-the-jobless-future/
Universal Basic Income “will not solve the social problems that come from loss of people’s purpose in life”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/innovations/wp/2017/06/09/why-universal-basic-income-and-tax-breaks-wont-save-us-from-the-jobless-future/
“The OECD says universal basic income could make poverty worse”
https://qz.com/999496/the-oecd-says-the-universal-basic-income-could-make-poverty-worse-but-they-make-some-weird-assumptions/
June 8, 2017
Universal Basic Income will ‘only’ cost $539B/yr. How u gonna pay for it? National debt already $20T
http://basicincome.org/news/2017/05/much-ubi-cost/
Bernie Sanders writes “Think and Grow Rich” sequel, rakes in $858K. Communism for thee but not for me.
http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/bernie-sanders-made-more-858000-book-royalties-last-year-hes-keeping-every-dollar
Tom Steyer hoping to ride income inequality ‘issue’ to California Governor’s mansion. #GoodLuckWithThat
http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Tom-Steyer-led-group-issues-report-on-tackling-11189600.php
Deluded Noam Chomsky calls Venezuela’s “Socialism of the 21st Century” capitalism. Nice try.
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2017/05/31/stossel-in-venezuela-because-some-people-believe-socialism-is-answer-to-inequality-people-starve.html
“Stossel: In Venezuela, because some believe socialism is the answer to inequality, people starve”
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2017/05/31/stossel-in-venezuela-because-some-people-believe-socialism-is-answer-to-inequality-people-starve.html
Students no socialists when it comes to grade redistribution. #ThinkLeftLiveRight
http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/davidson-college-students-tricked-rejecting-socialism-are-angry-about-it
If anyone with money exploited others to get it, as the Left maintains, who did Obama exploit to buy his $8.1 million house?
Universal Basic Income will ‘only’ cost $539B/yr. How u gonna pay for it? National debt already $20T
http://basicincome.org/news/2017/05/much-ubi-cost/
Bernie Sanders writes “Think and Grow Rich” sequel, rakes in $858K. Communism for thee but not for me.
http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/bernie-sanders-made-more-858000-book-royalties-last-year-hes-keeping-every-dollar
Tom Steyer hoping to ride income inequality ‘issue’ to California Governor’s mansion. #GoodLuckWithThat
http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Tom-Steyer-led-group-issues-report-on-tackling-11189600.php
Deluded Noam Chomsky calls Venezuela’s “Socialism of the 21st Century” capitalism. Nice try.
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2017/05/31/stossel-in-venezuela-because-some-people-believe-socialism-is-answer-to-inequality-people-starve.html
“Stossel: In Venezuela, because some believe socialism is the answer to inequality, people starve”
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2017/05/31/stossel-in-venezuela-because-some-people-believe-socialism-is-answer-to-inequality-people-starve.html
Students no socialists when it comes to grade redistribution. #ThinkLeftLiveRight
http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/davidson-college-students-tricked-rejecting-socialism-are-angry-about-it
If anyone with money exploited others to get it, as the Left maintains, who did Obama exploit to buy his $8.1 million house?
Vulnerabilities (continuously updated)
The inequality narrative is part of the Left's strategy to create more victims and grievance groups who will vote Democrat.
Inequality is a non-issue. People don’t really care about it the way the professional Left says they do.
SJWs beating a dead horse; people just don’t care about inequality.
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-04-20/-fight-inequality-is-a-poor-rallying-cry
Study: “people are primarily bothered by unfairness, not inequality”
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/study-finds-people-are-bothered-by-economic-unfairness-not-inequality/article/2619900
People don’t resent Steve Jobs’ wealth. He created value and the process by which he gained wealth is fair.
https://fee.org/articles/the-unfairness-of-equal-outcomes/
Eliminating inequality per se is a false value.
Would you rather live in poor but equal Pakistan or rich but unequal Hong Kong?
http://www.learnliberty.org/blog/income-inequality-or-income-mobility-for-what-should-we-fight/
The inequality narrative is artificial because it ignores personal choice, individual responsibility, and social mobility.
- What are you doing with the second 40 hours of your work week? You want more? Go out and make more, nobody’s stopping you.
- Inequality is good. People who work twice as hard should get twice as much.
- You’re right, inequality is bad. The top 1% pay 40% of all income taxes. It’s unequal and UNFAIR.
Ave poor family doesn’t work nearly as much as rich families, key reason why these households are poor.
http://www.heritage.org/jobs-and-labor/commentary/the-myth-the-idle-rich
Study: “financial knowledge is a key determinant of wealth inequality”. Who’s stopping you? #InequalityIsAChoice
http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdfplus/10.1086/690950
Inequality among the aged exists primarily because some chose to save and others did not. #PersonalResponsibility
http://www.forbes.com/sites/johngoodman/2016/02/01/almost-everything-youve-been-told-about-inequality-is-wrong/#28d4e30a5757
Market economies with social mobility reduce poverty. You can’t redistribute what hasn’t been produced.
http://www.learnliberty.org/blog/income-inequality-or-income-mobility-for-what-should-we-fight/
The metrics and studies commonly cited to support the inequality narrative are flawed because, among other things, they ignore progressive taxation and transfer payments.
ICYMI: Piketty’s data errors undermine his claim inequality is widening.
https://www.ft.com/content/e1f343ca-e281-11e3-89fd-00144feabdc0
‘Inequality Has Never Been Worse’ – Not true. Common metrics ignore progressive taxation, transfer payments
https://www.cato.org/publications/policy-analysis/five-myths-about-economic-inequality-america
Inequality studies flawed – lump people at career peak earnings in with people just starting out.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/johngoodman/2016/02/01/almost-everything-youve-been-told-about-inequality-is-wrong/#28d4e30a5757
Thomas Sowell book: data show inequality not nearly as extreme or sensational as the Left would have us believe.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0465082939/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0465082939&linkCode=as2&tag=herita05-20&linkId=I6RLQONFXLW5MH72
Everything the Left believes about capitalism and wealth accumulation is wrong.
- Capitalism has the moral high ground: mutual consent beats coercion any day.
Capitalism has the moral high ground: mutual consent beats coercion any day.
https://fee.org/articles/capitalism-is-the-moral-high-road/
- Capitalism has a proven track record of producing prosperity, whereas socialism is just empty promises about the future.
Capitalist washing machines freeing women from washday slavery around the globe.
https://fee.org/articles/how-capitalism-is-setting-washerwomen-free/
Walmart’s lower wages: $4.7 billion. Savings to consumers from lower prices: $263 billion. We are all richer.
https://fee.org/articles/what-warren-buffett-gets-wrong-about-capitalism/
‘markets & competition mean benefits flow to us, not just pile up in capitalist vaults'
https://fee.org/articles/what-warren-buffett-gets-wrong-about-capitalism/
- Leftists refuse to admit that privatization has real benefits.
Countries that have privatized their air traffic control systems are safer and at least as innovative.
https://fee.org/articles/this-video-mocked-privatization-but-the-free-market-got-the-last-laugh/
- Capitalism promotes equality because employers must offer competitive wages.
Capitalism promotes equality because employers must offer competitive wages.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2017/04/03/murthy-infosys-and-pay-its-markets-that-make-capitalism-compassionate-nothing-else/#1c9d7ce27d2a
- Inheriting wealth can reduce inequality and increase mobility.
Study: “inheritances reduce inequality and increase mobility”
http://uu.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:827273/FULLTEXT02.pdf
Some of the loudest voices demanding economic equality are hypocrites and would be losers if economic equality actually happened.
Students no socialists when it comes to grade redistribution. #ThinkLeftLiveRight
http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/davidson-college-students-tricked-rejecting-socialism-are-angry-about-it
Bernie Sanders writes “Think and Grow Rich” sequel, rakes in $858K. Communism for thee but not for me.
http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/bernie-sanders-made-more-858000-book-royalties-last-year-hes-keeping-every-dollar
“Obamas buy D.C. home for $8.1 million; keeping house in Chicago.” Closing in on Bernie Sanders.
http://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/obama-buys-d-c-home-keeping-house-in-chicago/
The Real Maxine Waters: wealthy, out-of-touch politician with a gigantic mansion.
http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/artist-trolls-maxine-waters-because-her-out-district-mansion
“DNC Workers Sue Party for Receiving Sub-Minimum Wages, No Overtime”. Platform? What platform?
http://freebeacon.com/issues/dnc-workers-sue-party-receiving-sub-minimum-wages-no-overtime/
If tenured professors care so much about inequality, why do they put up with being paid more than adjuncts?
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-04-20/-fight-inequality-is-a-poor-rallying-cry
Elizabeth Warren goes silent on Equal Pay Day after it is revealed she pays women 29% less.
http://freebeacon.com/politics/elizabeth-warren-goes-silent-on-equal-pay-day-after-free-beacon-report/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=8b9752f325-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_04_05&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-8b9752f325-45628225
The ‘gender wage gap’ is a myth.
The ‘gender wage gap’ is a myth; individual education and career choices explain the difference.
http://www.truthrevolt.org/commentary/prager-u-there-no-gender-wage-gap
Can’t complain about ‘gender pay gap’ when women choose to leave work force before reaching senior positions.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/the-messy-middle-making-sense-of-the-gender-pay_us_58ed1d35e4b081da6ad00856
Universal Basic Income (UBI) is just the latest socialist pipedream.
- Universal Basic Income will ‘only’ cost $539B/yr. How u gonna pay for it? National debt already $20T
Universal Basic Income will ‘only’ cost $539B/yr. How u gonna pay for it? National debt already $20T
http://basicincome.org/news/2017/05/much-ubi-cost/
- A ‘universal basic income’ would make people lazy, destroy their character, and rob them of their dignity as well as the chance to live a full human life.
Universal Basic Income is the opiate of the masses – “store away surplus people in YouTube-enabled homes”
http://www.independent.co.uk/money/can-universal-basic-income-counter-the-ill-effects-of-the-gig-economy-a7681761.html
Universal Basic Income ignores connection between work and self-worth. Addiction, depression, suicide foreseeable.
https://spectator.org/beware-the-universal-basic-income/
Universal Basic Income’s life w/o work would be “a psychological and spiritual disaster.” #PerpetualChildren
http://theweek.com/articles/695019/spiritual-ruin-universal-basic-income
- A ‘universal basic income’ cannot be justified by fears of automation.
If automation could truly destroy employment, how is it unemployment is at 4.5% after decades of automation?
http://www.nasdaq.com/article/the-pros-and-cons-of-basic-income-cm773398
“Throughout history, mechanization hasn’t destroyed jobs, instead it changed them into new opportunities”
http://www.nasdaq.com/article/the-pros-and-cons-of-basic-income-cm773398
Universal Basic Income not needed; Robot Invasion overstated and automation creates new jobs
https://futurism.com/heres-why-experts-think-universal-basic-income-will-never-work/
Certain government policies promote inequality.
Free market solution to inequality: stop cutting off the bottom rungs of the economic ladder.
https://www.mercatus.org/commentary/some-progress-occupational-licensing-much-more-needed?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=SAMCAP
If inequality bugs you, stop supporting gov’t policies that cause it – occupational licensing, ban on gig economy
https://fee.org/articles/4-questions-to-ask-when-debating-inequality/
What good is a bigger slice of a smaller socialist pie?
- Socialism claims to produce greater prosperity than capitalism, but that’s never happened anywhere socialism has been tried.
Watch Margaret Thatcher destroy inequality narrative with one line (this is a classic –“rather the poor be poorer”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rv5t6rC6yvg
Attempts to reduce inequality through government cause numerous adverse effects.
- disincentive to work, coercion, etc.
It’s not fair to treat people differently to force equal outcomes.
https://fee.org/articles/the-unfairness-of-equal-outcomes/
You can increase government transfers to reduce inequality, but this disincentivizes work and cuts economic growth.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/johngoodman/2016/02/01/almost-everything-youve-been-told-about-inequality-is-wrong/#28d4e30a5757
The inequality narrative is part of the Left's strategy to create more victims and grievance groups who will vote Democrat.
Inequality is a non-issue. People don’t really care about it the way the professional Left says they do.
SJWs beating a dead horse; people just don’t care about inequality.
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-04-20/-fight-inequality-is-a-poor-rallying-cry
Study: “people are primarily bothered by unfairness, not inequality”
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/study-finds-people-are-bothered-by-economic-unfairness-not-inequality/article/2619900
People don’t resent Steve Jobs’ wealth. He created value and the process by which he gained wealth is fair.
https://fee.org/articles/the-unfairness-of-equal-outcomes/
Eliminating inequality per se is a false value.
Would you rather live in poor but equal Pakistan or rich but unequal Hong Kong?
http://www.learnliberty.org/blog/income-inequality-or-income-mobility-for-what-should-we-fight/
The inequality narrative is artificial because it ignores personal choice, individual responsibility, and social mobility.
- What are you doing with the second 40 hours of your work week? You want more? Go out and make more, nobody’s stopping you.
- Inequality is good. People who work twice as hard should get twice as much.
- You’re right, inequality is bad. The top 1% pay 40% of all income taxes. It’s unequal and UNFAIR.
Ave poor family doesn’t work nearly as much as rich families, key reason why these households are poor.
http://www.heritage.org/jobs-and-labor/commentary/the-myth-the-idle-rich
Study: “financial knowledge is a key determinant of wealth inequality”. Who’s stopping you? #InequalityIsAChoice
http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdfplus/10.1086/690950
Inequality among the aged exists primarily because some chose to save and others did not. #PersonalResponsibility
http://www.forbes.com/sites/johngoodman/2016/02/01/almost-everything-youve-been-told-about-inequality-is-wrong/#28d4e30a5757
Market economies with social mobility reduce poverty. You can’t redistribute what hasn’t been produced.
http://www.learnliberty.org/blog/income-inequality-or-income-mobility-for-what-should-we-fight/
The metrics and studies commonly cited to support the inequality narrative are flawed because, among other things, they ignore progressive taxation and transfer payments.
ICYMI: Piketty’s data errors undermine his claim inequality is widening.
https://www.ft.com/content/e1f343ca-e281-11e3-89fd-00144feabdc0
‘Inequality Has Never Been Worse’ – Not true. Common metrics ignore progressive taxation, transfer payments
https://www.cato.org/publications/policy-analysis/five-myths-about-economic-inequality-america
Inequality studies flawed – lump people at career peak earnings in with people just starting out.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/johngoodman/2016/02/01/almost-everything-youve-been-told-about-inequality-is-wrong/#28d4e30a5757
Thomas Sowell book: data show inequality not nearly as extreme or sensational as the Left would have us believe.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0465082939/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0465082939&linkCode=as2&tag=herita05-20&linkId=I6RLQONFXLW5MH72
Everything the Left believes about capitalism and wealth accumulation is wrong.
- Capitalism has the moral high ground: mutual consent beats coercion any day.
Capitalism has the moral high ground: mutual consent beats coercion any day.
https://fee.org/articles/capitalism-is-the-moral-high-road/
- Capitalism has a proven track record of producing prosperity, whereas socialism is just empty promises about the future.
Capitalist washing machines freeing women from washday slavery around the globe.
https://fee.org/articles/how-capitalism-is-setting-washerwomen-free/
Walmart’s lower wages: $4.7 billion. Savings to consumers from lower prices: $263 billion. We are all richer.
https://fee.org/articles/what-warren-buffett-gets-wrong-about-capitalism/
‘markets & competition mean benefits flow to us, not just pile up in capitalist vaults'
https://fee.org/articles/what-warren-buffett-gets-wrong-about-capitalism/
- Leftists refuse to admit that privatization has real benefits.
Countries that have privatized their air traffic control systems are safer and at least as innovative.
https://fee.org/articles/this-video-mocked-privatization-but-the-free-market-got-the-last-laugh/
- Capitalism promotes equality because employers must offer competitive wages.
Capitalism promotes equality because employers must offer competitive wages.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2017/04/03/murthy-infosys-and-pay-its-markets-that-make-capitalism-compassionate-nothing-else/#1c9d7ce27d2a
- Inheriting wealth can reduce inequality and increase mobility.
Study: “inheritances reduce inequality and increase mobility”
http://uu.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:827273/FULLTEXT02.pdf
Some of the loudest voices demanding economic equality are hypocrites and would be losers if economic equality actually happened.
Students no socialists when it comes to grade redistribution. #ThinkLeftLiveRight
http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/davidson-college-students-tricked-rejecting-socialism-are-angry-about-it
Bernie Sanders writes “Think and Grow Rich” sequel, rakes in $858K. Communism for thee but not for me.
http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/bernie-sanders-made-more-858000-book-royalties-last-year-hes-keeping-every-dollar
“Obamas buy D.C. home for $8.1 million; keeping house in Chicago.” Closing in on Bernie Sanders.
http://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/obama-buys-d-c-home-keeping-house-in-chicago/
The Real Maxine Waters: wealthy, out-of-touch politician with a gigantic mansion.
http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/artist-trolls-maxine-waters-because-her-out-district-mansion
“DNC Workers Sue Party for Receiving Sub-Minimum Wages, No Overtime”. Platform? What platform?
http://freebeacon.com/issues/dnc-workers-sue-party-receiving-sub-minimum-wages-no-overtime/
If tenured professors care so much about inequality, why do they put up with being paid more than adjuncts?
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-04-20/-fight-inequality-is-a-poor-rallying-cry
Elizabeth Warren goes silent on Equal Pay Day after it is revealed she pays women 29% less.
http://freebeacon.com/politics/elizabeth-warren-goes-silent-on-equal-pay-day-after-free-beacon-report/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=8b9752f325-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_04_05&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-8b9752f325-45628225
The ‘gender wage gap’ is a myth.
The ‘gender wage gap’ is a myth; individual education and career choices explain the difference.
http://www.truthrevolt.org/commentary/prager-u-there-no-gender-wage-gap
Can’t complain about ‘gender pay gap’ when women choose to leave work force before reaching senior positions.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/the-messy-middle-making-sense-of-the-gender-pay_us_58ed1d35e4b081da6ad00856
Universal Basic Income (UBI) is just the latest socialist pipedream.
- Universal Basic Income will ‘only’ cost $539B/yr. How u gonna pay for it? National debt already $20T
Universal Basic Income will ‘only’ cost $539B/yr. How u gonna pay for it? National debt already $20T
http://basicincome.org/news/2017/05/much-ubi-cost/
- A ‘universal basic income’ would make people lazy, destroy their character, and rob them of their dignity as well as the chance to live a full human life.
Universal Basic Income is the opiate of the masses – “store away surplus people in YouTube-enabled homes”
http://www.independent.co.uk/money/can-universal-basic-income-counter-the-ill-effects-of-the-gig-economy-a7681761.html
Universal Basic Income ignores connection between work and self-worth. Addiction, depression, suicide foreseeable.
https://spectator.org/beware-the-universal-basic-income/
Universal Basic Income’s life w/o work would be “a psychological and spiritual disaster.” #PerpetualChildren
http://theweek.com/articles/695019/spiritual-ruin-universal-basic-income
- A ‘universal basic income’ cannot be justified by fears of automation.
If automation could truly destroy employment, how is it unemployment is at 4.5% after decades of automation?
http://www.nasdaq.com/article/the-pros-and-cons-of-basic-income-cm773398
“Throughout history, mechanization hasn’t destroyed jobs, instead it changed them into new opportunities”
http://www.nasdaq.com/article/the-pros-and-cons-of-basic-income-cm773398
Universal Basic Income not needed; Robot Invasion overstated and automation creates new jobs
https://futurism.com/heres-why-experts-think-universal-basic-income-will-never-work/
Certain government policies promote inequality.
Free market solution to inequality: stop cutting off the bottom rungs of the economic ladder.
https://www.mercatus.org/commentary/some-progress-occupational-licensing-much-more-needed?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=SAMCAP
If inequality bugs you, stop supporting gov’t policies that cause it – occupational licensing, ban on gig economy
https://fee.org/articles/4-questions-to-ask-when-debating-inequality/
What good is a bigger slice of a smaller socialist pie?
- Socialism claims to produce greater prosperity than capitalism, but that’s never happened anywhere socialism has been tried.
Watch Margaret Thatcher destroy inequality narrative with one line (this is a classic –“rather the poor be poorer”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rv5t6rC6yvg
Attempts to reduce inequality through government cause numerous adverse effects.
- disincentive to work, coercion, etc.
It’s not fair to treat people differently to force equal outcomes.
https://fee.org/articles/the-unfairness-of-equal-outcomes/
You can increase government transfers to reduce inequality, but this disincentivizes work and cuts economic growth.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/johngoodman/2016/02/01/almost-everything-youve-been-told-about-inequality-is-wrong/#28d4e30a5757