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Pity the Socialists in Minnesota

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One can’t help but feel sorry for socialists who live in Minnesota. The reason? They are getting terribly embarrassed by the wage situation in that state. Socialists have long claimed that a minimum wage is necessary to protect workers from greedy, profit-seeking employers. Without a state-managed minimum wage, the argument goes, exploitive employers would pay workers only subsistence wages and possibly even less. But not so in Minnesota, where socialists are hanging their heads in shame!  The state-mandated minimum wage in Minnesota is $8.42 an hour for small employers and $10.33 for large employers. Therefore, given the socialist position, wouldn’t you think that the wage rate in Minnesota would be no higher than the state-mandated minimum? After all, at the risk of belaboring the obvious, if greedy, profit-seeking employers would pay no more than subsistence wages (at most) if not forced to pay more, then doesn’t it stand to reason that they would pay no more than ...

Why Not Just Abolish the IRS?

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While some conservatives are criticizing President Biden for hiring 87,000 new well-armed IRS agents under the guise of fighting inflation, I’ve got a better idea: Let’s just abolish the IRS and, at the same time, end the federal income tax.  The idea is actually not as radical as it sounds. It certainly wouldn’t have sounded radical to Americans who lived here in the United States from 1776 to 1913. For virtually that entire period of time, Americans lived without federal income taxation and an IRS. That’s right — for more than a century, Americans were free to keep everything they earned, and there was nothing the federal government could do about it.  No deductions to keep track of. No income-tax returns to file. No withholding. No IRS to audit, terrorize, and send Americans to jail. That’s what it once meant to be an American. That’s what it once meant to be free. That’s the freedom that ...

America, Meet Your New Dictator-in-Chief

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“Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness have given way to permanent crisis management: to policing the planet and fighting preventative wars of ideological containment, usually on terrain chosen by, and favorable to, our enemies. Limited government and constitutional accountability have been shouldered aside by the kind of imperial presidency our constitutional system was explicitly designed to prevent.” — ...