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Trusting the GOP would finally do away with the abomination of ObamaCare. #MyWorstIdeaYet— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 10, 2017
@TrumpsTaxes Oh, just ignore the fact that it is far more profitable to make iPhones than managing healthcare expenses, median CEO pay +0.3%— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 10, 2017
Many of the roads in early US history were privately-operated. But Big Govt hates competition & saw roads as a popular funding rationale.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 10, 2017
Do you think the private sector would allow its roads to fall into disrepair, knowing it would lose toll revenue to competing services?— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 10, 2017
Road costs are passed along indirectly (e.g., fuel or property taxes) vs. user-based (tolls). And government has competing interests to fund— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 10, 2017
Libertarians love to ridicule "muh roads", the Statist rationale for government, i.e., "free roads". Roads are not paved with pixie dust.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 10, 2017
The same point could be made over replacing vs. repealing ObamaCare. pic.twitter.com/IwMCxUTy9y— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 10, 2017
A pro-Trump outlet is pushing Trump has better ratings than the media. However, Media has not declared his interest in the 2020 Dem nod— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 9, 2017
News flash! Trump is also polling higher favorables than parents who ground or enforce curfew on their teenage children— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 9, 2017
Amash On GOP ObamaCare Lite
How To Repeal ObamaCare
Nowrasteh Wins This Debate Hands Down!
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(Cato Institute). (See above clip). "I would think that a conservative would be a lot more opposed to the welfare state than to the free flow of people across borders."
Cato Immigration Policy Analyst Alex Nowrasteh busts popular immigration myths on Tucker Carlson Tonight...
Nowrasteh won this debate going away; Tucker Carlson was disingenuous, trying to mock Alex's position. There would have been other items I would have pointed out as well. For example, immigrants have been far more mobile, willing to move to more prosperous locations with work opportunities. Furthermore, the lower-end competition only has a short-term and minor impact on wages, as the market responds to more plentiful labor resources (which Carlson totally ignores in a one-sided view of the law of supply and demand). Also, Carlson ignores the trend away from self-sufficiency of low-skilled labor. And so we need to remind Carlson that the vast majority of jobs pay over wage minimums? That in most states, immigrants account for less than 5% or so of local/state budgets? If Carlson was really interested in dismantling the welfare state, immigrants are not where the money is mostly going: it's like the Boy Scout skit of the lost quarter.
More importantly, Carlson embraces the free economy in an inconsistent manner. He is interfering with the free flow of people in favor of some arbitrary Statist restrictions, despite compelling evidence of failed central planning. He ignores the fact that the current quota system is anti-market and anti-competitive, that we emerged as the greatest economic power under a more open immigration system in the nineteenth century--when, by the way, the modern welfare system did not exist.
(National Review). "Unleashing chaos in Europe could undo all that the U.S. achieved in its victories against the Nazis and the Communists..."
I am a Never Trumper, and I will point out things like putting boots on the ground in Syria is hardly "America First". But European freeloading off Ameica's defense budget is, at best, morally hazardous. It allows them the luxury of growing the welfare state over their own defense needs. It is not our place to save Europe from itself. Europe needs to find its own peace with Russia and others.
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Musical Interlude: My Favorite Vocalists
Sheena Easton, "Strut". My second favorite ("You Could Have Been With Me") Easton single.
