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A Rare Bird, A Strange Duck, One Funky Blog
random thought of the moment:
The mounting burden of taxation not only undermines individual incentives to increased work and earnings, but in a score of ways discourages capital accumulation and distorts, unbalances, and shrinks production. Total real wealth and income is made smaller than it otherwise would be. On net balance there is more poverty rather than less.
— Henry Hazlitt, The Conquest of Poverty [1973]
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It's the Market, Stupid: Negative Economic Impacts of Raising the Minimum Wage
Before beginning to write this article, I was of the opinion that minimum wage should at least be adjusted for the cost of inflation, but I had put little additional thought into the matter. Raising the minimum wage is certainly a popular idea with Americans today. Indeed, Americans overwhelmingly support an increase in […]
Is Wal-Mart Really to Blame?
I'd like to respond to some of Howard's and Steve's comments to my previous article, so I'll take them in turn. Unfortunately, I'm so darn long-winded that it's too big for a simple comment post, so its taken the form of an article:
Costco's competition with Walmart
Howard speaks of how Costco effectively competes with Walmart […]
