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Hall of Shame: Cops and an Innocent Man Who Died Because He Looked at Them and Ran in the Wrong Neighborhood
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Authoritarian Universities Suppressing Freedom of Politically Incorrect Speech Using Sham Intellectually Vacuous and Nonsensical Grounds of Triggering Behaviors
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(Reason). Maverick FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai on why net neutrality and government attempts to regulate the Internet are all wrong.
If we keep repeating that the problem of monopoly customer abuse doesn't exist, eventually it will substitute for an actual argument. It's bad enough that I begin to wonder whether Reason is getting paid by the ISPs.
Retard OP thread. Nick Gillespie debunked this load of crap some time back.
(Mises Institute). Ryan McMaken: Those who advocate for a living wage generally assume that if the cost of living is high, the primary response should be to simply raise wages. This has the political advantage of placing the costs of the “solution” onto a minority group such as employers (with small, poorly capitalized employers being most impacted by these new mandates) and low-skilled employees (whose jobs will be largely replaced by machines or outsourced as a result of the mandate).
I work for a retail establishment that CHOSE to raise it's entry level wage. This company also chose to deliver excellent benefits, including vision/dental/401k/maternity and paternity leave well before the mandate for health coverage as a "right". This company is willing to do this to attract better workers, to raise the quality of their product, by choice. Compulsion by the state to pay minimum wage decreases opportunity for those at the bottom of the scale. If Walmart chose to pay their cashiers $15/hr, they'd probably hire fewer people with more skills/productivity to maintain profit levels. That's the aspect of capitalism that people demonize, when it's true of any and every system - human greed will pervert all economic systems but that does not disprove the philosophy or logic of that system. Like representative government, free market economics are ideal when there is complete, ethical participation... which there simply isn't and won't be. But the system addresses the desires and actions of man more logically and realistically than Communism/Socialism, and empowers the individual to benefit society, not the other way around. This makes it easy to see why the rabbit-hole of corporate personhood is a tragedy of perverted Capitalism, not in line with the actual logic of the system.
What a freaking load of crap. Your retail employer participates in the market, just like Wal-Mart. YOUR EMPLOYER'S POLICIES ARE PART OF CAPITALISM. Henry Ford also introduced state of the art compensation; in his case, the higher costs were matched with productivity gains. I'm sure your employer is not arbitrarily paying workers above their worth to the business; they probably are highly selective in hiring at higher wages. If Wal-Mart was paying below market, they would find their most productive employees poached by other employers. And, if fact, in shale oil boom town Williston, ND, Wal-Mart started out a number of employee types at $17/hour. Corporation-bashing is a pathetic form of economic illiteracy.
(IPI). Traffic safety rules should focus on ensuring driver and pedestrian safety, but red-light camera systems seem more concerned about healthy ticket revenues.
Don't run red lights and u won't have to pay. U run red lights and eventually u or someone else will pay with or without cameras.
No, the OP is an authoritarian; whether or not there is a red light, you are still liable when you cause an accident. It's insane playing the "rules are rules" pitch--what about when there's no traffic? Have you ever found your brakes didn't work as you approached a lighted intersection? Have you ever been behind a truck crossing an intersection?
Make no mistake--this isn't about public safety; it's about trying to shift the public cost burden unfairly at the expense of drivers.
Look at what happens with a power outage and no cops:
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