- August 31, 2016
David Burress
Libertarian ideology depends on the claim that markets are self-regulating. Here is a tiny counterexample.
One of my daily peeves is shampoo bottles. Some time ago, their squeeze bottles had small holes that provided good control over quantity dispensed. Then the entire industry shifted to larger holes making the quantity harder to control. In consequence the ...
- August 29, 2016
David Burress
Say you are traveling across country and get stopped by an armed man who searches your car and finds a hidden $4000. It’s hard-earned cash and all you own but it’s not backed up with any extensive paper work carried in your car. The armed man keeps it, holds you for a while, and lets ...
- August 29, 2016
David Burress
Kansas and Missouri have spent tens of millions in tax incentives moving companies a few miles back and forth across the border in Greater Kansas City. The net result is nearly a wash: substantially nothing was gained by anyone.
Except by the subsidized businesses, of course. Public policy is being used to transfer income from citizens ...
- August 26, 2016
David Burress
The whole “free will-determinism” question is an empirically meaningless question that scientists and progressives and sensible conservatives and jurists ought to drop.
For example:
1.If some one commits a terrible sex crime, it doesn’t matter that he might be a machine that could not help itself. As conservatives point out, we need to lock him up to ...
