That’s the name of a new blog I just looked over. It has only a few posts so far, but I can see that it will be full of new and interesting ideas in the moths to come. A couple of the posts caught my attention while I was there. The first was a post [...]
At the moment the United States is THE world power, but that will change… China still has a lot of areas which need to and will be updated to the most modern technology. They will eventually have tractors for all farms, for example. Because of the potential there and the lower base they are starting [...]
Do I have political representations? You might think so, since I live in a country in which we vote for our leaders. But what if no congressman I vote for has ever been elected? How am I represented then? This isn’t a hypothetical question. None of my choices have been elected. The problem is that [...]
It is accepted by almost everyone that the licensing of doctors and other professionals by governments is necessary. Without getting into a long argument for or against professional licenses, I want to get you thinking abut this. We should note that a license given by a government only requires a minimum standard that is primarily [...]
Many extreme advocates of the rights of individuals think taxation is theft. The basic reasoning is that to take from a person without that person’s permission is stealing, regardless of the purpose. If I don’t have the right to take my neighbor’s money without his permission–for any purpose–I don’t gain that right by getting together [...]
Today I have a very short post on maturity and authority. It is meant to raise questions more than to answer them, so you can decide for yourself what a mature approach to dealing with authorities consists of. The questions at the end are borrowed from The Radical Thinking Course. We can see from history [...]
Is there a connection between capitalism and morality? It is often assumed that capitalism and free market philosophies are justified on the basis of their effectiveness at creating wealth, jobs, or healthy economies. Though that is the common view, it is not the only basis for supporting “laissez faire” economic systems. In fact, some political [...]
Sometimes the most profound insights can come from the simplest of questions, if we explore them deeply enough. Take, for example, the simple question; “Who should decide what a word means and by what criteria?” I have read that in Iceland there is an official organization that creates and maintains the language of the land. [...]
By Steve Gillman In part one of this series, we looked at whether our tax system is really progressive, and in part two we looked whether it should be. Today I wrap it up with some ideas on a fair tax system. The term “fair tax” has been unfortunately co-opted by those who advocate a [...]
By Steve Gillman Yesterday we looked at whether we really have a progressive tax system when taking into account the various tax loopholes, and ended on the question of whether we should have a progressive system. In other words, should the rich pay more taxes than the middle class and poor? Let’s quickly revisit the [...]
