DISQUS

Clinton-era tax rates aren't going to pay for the spending spree we've been on for the past month and a half, and certainly not for the coming rounds of bailouts, "free" medicine, and the like. I know the President talks about restoring the old rates, but he also said he was going to reduce government spending.

There was a time when many Democrats did try to help the poor. They weren't good at it, though, and it has been decades since they've even talked about it much. Now it's "the middle class," which, if it's lucky, wont have as much done to it as the poor did in the 60s.

All of Dworkin's work reaches the same conclusion: Fundamental principles of morality require whatever the Democrats are currently asking for. This is a very popular line in academic circles, and Dworkin has done well there.

Nothing's wrong with it except for Congress. Your model doesn't show huge amounts of corn being grown to make ethanol. And so on. Models that attempt to make predictions but which don't incorporate public-choice theory are incomplete.

Even if the minimum wage didn't have the bad effects that it actually has, what justification could there possibly be for imposing the cost of a forced transfer to (some) low-wage workers on those who employ low-wage workers?The earned income tax credit increases the wages of the working poor and pays for it out or tax revenues generally. One would think that leftists would prefer that source of financing, which takes from people more or less according to their ability to pay, to taking the money from the very people who provide what jobs the unskilled can get. Are laundry owners really a more-attractive target than doctors and lawyers?

I wish we could get this message across to teenage girls, who all too often think that having a baby will create someone to love them. I know kids whose mother realized, at the age of 21, that being single and having four kids was a drag, so she basically gave them to child protective services.

I think my own kid (now 25) is terrific. But I can still remember every parent's happiest moment--when the kid falls asleep.