Posted on 10/12/2010 12:07:06 PM PDT by jazusamo
Best line in the piece -- though all his lines are, as usual, great!
Why is it that the government ALWAYS assumes that you can do with less money but that they NEVER can?
They’re just trying to help by being there for us. /sarc
Question: IF oil companies are “greedy” and supposedly cheat us when gas prices go up,
Then how are alternative energy companies and their government allies not “greedy” when they insist their energy costs more, plus we have to subsidize them with our tax money?
Sometimes the jokes just write themselves.
Great question and I would suspect the enviro nazis + Democrats + fast buck artists have something to do with it.
Yep! :)
Which precludes the speculative investment in land for those purposes while rewarding those who know about the coming project and derive an economic benefit from the added capital infrastructure. In no way are the original owners compensated for that benefit. So, even under Dr. Sowell's idealized model, it is a system that invites corruption.
On the other hand, were there no eminent domain, a speculator in a dam for example, could buy options from the landowners, optimizing the use of those sites as temporary and making use of them less costly. It would specialize some folks in identifying potential uses and assembling them as contractual overlays. In short, Sowell doesn't understand how free markets work in these areas as well, because there is no such thing as half-way free.
Because they write the laws and, until now, they have been able to get away with it by having the gatekeeper media tell us what they wanted us to hear.
The internet has changed everything. More people with more access to more information has made for a more informed populace. And that populace is mad as hell.
Not only is it greed, it is moral theft.The only ting keeping it from being theft is the fact that the “law” justifies it.
How would the government workers feel if one of us needed a car,and simply went to the DOT motor pool, picked one out and confiscated it? (Sorry, but it was just sitting there not being used! Ha HA , see you later....).Thats what is done in Zimbabwe!
The government is not only greedy, it is wiley, and dishonest. Its the biggest confidence/protection racket we have. It is overdone, invasive, and I want them OUT of my life except for the barest of necessities: law enforcement, military defence, roads, and post office. The rest they can stick up the rectal cavities of the fat cats in Washington, twist it sideways, and give them all large doses of socialist laxative.
Having exhausted their taxing power, now they have illegally mandated us to enter into a private health care contract which is not only unconstitutional, its morally reprehensible. Millions of us will justly refuse because we want to be in charge of how long we live, and in charge of our own quality of life. Let them do their worst. Who will they import next, Robert Mugabe? Seizure of personal wealth?
They better start expanding their brown shirt contingent.
This is a point I often make with liberals. Whenever they bring up their typical "rich people are greedy" class envy mantra, I am quick to remind them that liberals are the greedy ones for demanding an ever-increasing share of their income. I have yet to see anyone earning over $100,000 per year demand as a right a portion of other people's income. Yet I hear from Democrats all the time that these same people "aren't paying their fair share". The word 'entitlement' is a fancy word for greed.
Thomas Sowell a clear thinker well advanced of his peers; I enjoy his writings.
“…almost never accuse government of greed…”
The concerned, complainers and whiners are just part of government and “friends of government” all looking to confiscate as much wealth and the labor of others for their own benefit; projecting upon successful citizenry their own conduct as the preemptive strike of class envy.
I'm going to have to save that for a future tagline.
bump
All of these Democrats in media and government and academe probably make over that 100K
It isn't Dr. Sowell's model, it's in the Constitution that way.
In short, Sowell doesn't understand how free markets work in these areas as well, because there is no such thing as half-way free.
I'm pretty sure since he teaches economics, he probably understands the free market.
Thanks for the ping to more truth from Dr. Sowell jaz.
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