Even I am shocked about how politicians and bureaucrats are bilking the poor people of Bell, California. I wish I had this example reported by Bloomberg for my video on overpaid bureaucrats, but mostly I hope that taxpayers rise up in revolt against the way the insiders are scamming the system and ripping off society’s productive outsiders. [...]
Archive for July 20th, 2010
Taxpayers vs. Bureaucrats, Part XXXVI
Posted in Bureaucracy, Bureaucrats, California, Local government, Taxpayer Ripoff, tagged Bureaucracy, Bureaucrats, California, Local government, Taxpayer Ripoff on July 20, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Good News from Romania
Posted in Competitiveness, Fiscal Policy, Flat Tax, Tax Competition, Tax Reform, tagged Flat Tax, Romania, Tax Competition, Tax Reform, Taxation on July 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Redistributionists hate the flat tax, and this sentiment is widely shared by other statists. These proponents of big government want the tax system to to punish success and generate loot that can be used to buy votes (though they don’t seem to understand that if they punish success too much, they won’t actually get any additional money [...]
Abortion, Third-Party Payer, and the Cost of Health Care
Posted in Economics, Free Markets, Health Care, Health Reform, Obama, Third party payer, tagged Abortion, Economics, Free Markets, Government-run healthcare, Health Care, Health Reform, Obamacare, Third party payer on July 20, 2010 | 14 Comments »
A major problem with America’s healthcare system, both before and after Obamacare, is the fact that consumers very rarely spend their own money when obtaining healthcare. Known as third-party payer, this problem exists in part because government directly finances almost 50 percent of healthcare expenditures. But even a majority of supposedly private healthcare spending is [...]