Category archive: “Fairness”
Continued Government Intervention Keeps Home Prices from Recovering
By Chuck Roger • September 13th, 2011 12:00 am
By Chuck Rogér Zealous people with agendas to sell often get so focused on minutia that big-picture truths get passed over. The Paul Krugmans, Barack Obamas, and other government-spending Keynesian-minded “thinkers” overlook the obvious. In our current economic disaster, the most obvious points are the actual causes of the disaster—flawed Federal Reserve policy, an ideology-inspired subprime mortgage [...]
Big Sister in the Workplace
By Chuck Roger • September 6th, 2011 12:00 am
Originally at American Thinker By Chuck Rogér Today there are twice as many women in the American workforce as there were four decades ago, three times as many women getting college degrees. More working women than men now hold degrees. The growth rate of female-owned businesses stands at four times the growth rate of male-owned [...]
Labor Department Declares War on Phantom Discrimination
By Chuck Roger • August 19th, 2011 12:00 am
Originally at American Thinker By Chuck Rogér “Pay discrimination continues to plague women and people of color in the workforce,” claims Patricia A. Shiu, a member of President Obama’s National Equal Pay Enforcement Task Force. There is some difficulty with the claim: an utter absence of data proving that the stated problem is an actual [...]
Taxpayers and Tax Spenders
By Chuck Roger • August 17th, 2011 12:00 am
By Chuck Rogér Let’s examine a stunning facet of human nature: When people get something free, they want more of that something even if it means hurting other people. A recent study conducted by the Mercatus Center finds that “when the tax-price of federally provided benefits is zero, people demand more, even when funded with [...]
Protecting a Protected Class within the Most Protected Class—Government
By Chuck Roger • May 13th, 2011 12:01 am
Guest Post By Don Ross When our small business gets requests for donations from local charities, youth sports teams, and relief agencies, most requests are readily approved. Other requests are just as quickly denied if the group holds beliefs with which we strongly disagree. For example, if the request comes from a group that directly [...]
New HHS Plan for Health Redistribution
By Chuck Roger • April 13th, 2011 12:00 am
Originally in American Thinker, April 12, 2011 By Chuck Rogér Can government make all people equally healthy? The U.S. Health and Human Services Department has announced a new plan aimed at doing precisely that. The HHS “action plan” will allegedly “reduce health disparities among racial and ethnic minorities.” A “health disparity” is defined as “a [...]
Progressive Fallacy Number 667: Wealth Redistribution Creates Societal ‘Harmony’
By Chuck Roger • April 4th, 2011 12:00 am
Originally in American Thinker, March 30, 2011 By Chuck Rogér Is wealth envy a serious problem in a technologically advanced country like America? Economist Tyler Cowen observes that economic indignation is mostly felt toward: …the guy down the hall who got a bigger raise … [or toward] the husband of your wife’s sister, because the [...]
‘The poor are getting poorer’ is a baseless claim
By Chuck Roger • February 4th, 2011 12:30 am
In the United States, people who contend that the rich are growing richer at the expense of the poor don’t have reality on their side. To accept the claim, one must believe in a finite-sized pot of wealth from which everyone is supposed to be allocated a “fair share.” But a simple thought experiment reveals [...]
E. J. Dionne’s middle class ‘tax burden’ whining: Dishonest? Or blind progressive ideology?
By Chuck Roger • December 13th, 2010 6:04 am
Discussing the lame duck Congress’s tax rate debate, Washington Post columnist E. J. Dionne complains, Rather than allow the debate to focus on an old tax measure from the beginning of the decade, Obama and the Democrats should have sought early on to replace the Bush tax cut. Their proposal could have shifted the tax [...]
Will British-style income ‘fairness’ come to America?
By Chuck Roger • December 6th, 2010 6:36 am
The opening line of a recent Financial Times commentary warns of the utter nonsense that is to follow: “Fairness is on everyone’s lips.” No, actually “fairness” is on very few people’s lips. But nonchalant presumptiveness comes natural to progressives. To these creatures, everyone should think as they do, want what they want, or act as [...]
Don’t give in to knuckleheads, defeat them
By Chuck Roger • March 28th, 2010 9:55 pm
True conservatism as conceived by Edmund Burke and reiterated by thinkers like Russell Kirk is a far cry from what neocons preach today. So it is not surprising that there are conservatives-in-name-only, like his silliness David Brooks of The New York Times, making fundamentally flawed pronouncements and claiming those pronouncements to be “conservative.” At Forbes.com, [...]
The free market inspires behavior that government cannot legislate
By Chuck Roger • March 23rd, 2010 9:56 pm
Psychonomics 101: No government can force humans to behave “fairly” toward one another. But allowed to develop mutually-interdependent relationships, humans figure things out on their own. In the journal Science, researchers report that economic markets draw out the fairest behaviors in people dependent on one another within those markets. Specifically, a market requires than in [...]
The curious phenomenon of humans acting human
By Chuck Roger • January 13th, 2010 3:25 am
To most people, a 14-pound stack of statistics interspersed with dry, scientific text might initiate a regurgitation reflex. But not to hard science types. We love data. We seek it out, embrace it, analyze it. Data tell stories. Statistics spice up those stories. Take the well-worn liberal saw that women and men are the same. [...]
Oh-oh, there goes Intel again, being ‘successful’
By Chuck Roger • December 20th, 2009 12:22 am
Competition: state of affairs existing among rival producers in which said producers strive to outdo one another in quality, delivery, features, and prices in order to gain larger share of the market. Now that that’s out of the way… The FTC (Federal Trade Commission) accuses Intel Corporation — arguably the most influential company in driving [...]
Inattentive in class
By Chuck Roger • December 10th, 2008 4:38 am
I thought I’d snuck the sketch of the fighter jet over to Frank Reese without her seeing me do it. But, “Wham!” That wooden ruler slams my knuckles. Sister Mary Aquinas runs a tight third grade. I’ll get home late, again, because I’ll be held for detention, again, because the nun caught me screwing off, [...]
