Many people believe in eliminating gaps and eliminating poverty. They don't realize that in some sense those two things are antithetical. If you were to double everyone's income, or if everyone's income were doubled naturally over the course of time, then you would reduce poverty significantly but you would have also increased the gap.

Do countries with strong gun control laws have lower murder rates? Only if you cherry-pick the data.

Envy is always referred to by its political alias, 'social justice.

Being willing to donate the taxpayers' money is not the same as being willing to put your own money where your mouth is.

All the political angst and moral melodrama about getting 'the rich' to pay 'their fair share' is part of a big charade. This is not about economics, it is about politics.

High tax rates that people don't actually pay do not bring the government as much revenue as lower tax rates that they do pay.

The more people who are dependent on government handouts, the more votes the left can depend on for an ever-expanding welfare state.