CONBUSTIBLE 08/16/2013 EXTRA

Welfare Can Make More Sense than Work
Most decisions in life are the result of a cost-benefit analysis. When residents in Connecticut consider getting a job, they assume they would be better off having a job than not. They’d be wrong. Because in Connecticut, it pays not to work. Read More...

Lindsey Graham’s Libertarian Challengers
Ever since Strom Thurmond shuffled off to an Edgefield retirement home over a decade ago, Lindsey Graham has represented South Carolina—and served as John McCain’s junior partner—in the Senate. Read More...

But What About Scandinavia?
To show that true Capitalism does not work, the critic will point to the calamities in the United States. As the so-called representative of the free world, the United States is often labeled as a Capitalistic economy. This is patently inaccurate. Read More...


Frédéric Bastiat and Subjective Marginal Utility
In the 1870s economics took a radical turn in what is known as the “marginal revolution.” Whereas the classical economists, beginning with Adam Smith, cleaved use-value from exchange-value and thought in terms of the total utility and total supplies of goods, Carl Menger, William Stanley Jevons, and Leon Walras realized that people act at the margin. Read More...

End racism, ban clowns
Apparently clowns are no longer permitted to mock certain sacred personages in the Land of the Formerly Free ... Read More...

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