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I was thinking today that most political affiliation to parties and left/right wing, can be concisely encapsulated by looking at the top Fiscal Priority of an individual. This seems to be able to identify parties and lables that otherwise elude simple description, since they contain a variety of various other views.
For example, […]
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Taxes levied always lead to a deadweight loss. That is, unless you are taxing an inelastic good or activity. Otherwise, there can be no revenue.
So far so good. However, one should consider why some goods and activities are inelastic. This category tends to includes necessities; things that are relatively important to your survival […]
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There are many myths about terrorists and their origins, motivators, goals and methods. There are many pundits who express their various opinions and conjectures. But there are relatively few works that present more studied information.
Here are two books that I own, which provide a wealth of information. Each of these tomes completes […]
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Democracy is founded on giving people the right to self-determination and the illusion that this is a good method by which to extract collective intelligence.
There is not the problem of the mob but quite the opposite: it is the massed individual stupidity which brings down the democratic endeavor.
Let us look at an […]
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You are trying to decide what policy best helps the environment, or how to improve the lot of the poor, or maybe you just need to know how to vote in the primaries.
Let’s have a look at the field: the right is too religious, war-mongering, corporatist and at times overly naive. The […]
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This is an old writeup of a proposed way to settle some of the obstacles to peace in Israel. It’s still has relevant as it was then, and the predictions of failure in Iraq (past the removal of Saddam) by its authors were completly vindicated.
I’ve interspersed the writeup with my comments.
Some people […]
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