What does 'economic justice' mean, except that you want something that someone else produced, without having to produce anything yourself in return?

There are no solutions; there are only trade-offs.

...Politics is not about facts. It is about what politicians can get people to believe.

You can only confiscate the wealth that exists at a given moment. You cannot confiscate future wealth - and that future wealth is less likely to be produced when people see that it is going to be confiscated.

Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good.

Let's face it, most of us are not half as smart as we may sometimes think we are-- and for intellectuals, not one-tenth as smart.

More than half of all people filing income tax forms use someone else to prepare the forms for them. Then they have to sign under penalty of perjury that these forms are correct. But if they were competent to determine that, why would they have to pay someone else to do their taxes for them in the first place?