Tidewater News and Opinion Forum
A place for civil discussion of the events of the day for Tidewater residents without the limitations imposed by media forums.
It’s a good question.
In many kingdoms of the ancient world, taxes were a type of rent. The king owned all the land and everything in it. Subjects paid taxes to use the land and its resources. The king, in turn, raised an army to protect his subjects and invested in public works. It was a simple formula, but one sufficient to sustain a basic legal system and a generally free market for exchange.
Continue reading “If Deficits Don’t Matter, Why Bother with Taxes?”Source: The Wall Street Journal (behind paywall).
A professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine notes that natural immunity to Covid-19 plays a larger role than our public health officials acknowledge:
Continue reading “Herd Immunity Is Near, Despite Fauci’s Denial”Source: The Wall Street Journal (behind paywall).
WSJ’s editors comment on the For the People Act:
Continue reading “News Flash: It’s a Bad Bill, H.R.1”I normally don’t care for New Orleans jazz all that much, but I like the singer in this band, Erika Lewis.
Continue reading “Tuba Skinny – “Going Back Home” – Royal St.”Source: The Wall Street Journal (behind paywall).
The writer makes the case that the root cause of the Texas blackouts was public policy of the foolish kind.
Continue reading “Texas’ Blackouts Blew In on the Wind”Daniel Greenfield riffs on the theme that Joe Biden doesn’t actually exist as President.
“The Biden administration is the equivalent of one of those cartoons of a bunch of kids standing on each other’s shoulders while draped in a trenchcoat so they can all pretend to be one adult.
“The illusion holds up until they try to walk.”
Vox Day comments on this story, “Putin knows. He knows a lot more about what’s actually going on than we do.”
My own thoughts are not quite so conspiratorial. The anecdote makes sense of Putin’s recent offer to hold a live discussion/debate with Biden. There is no chance Biden will take him up on it because Biden is weak and fearful.
The writer uses the concepts of productive and non-productive consumption to show that government spending is inherently destructive.
I would add that some destructive spending is both necessary and desirable. Military defense spending, for example, deters war; judicial spending enables domestic conflicts to be resolved; and so on. The benefits far outweigh the costs.
Still, the costs are real and they are unavoidable.
Its unofficially official. We can call the Biden border fiasco a “crisis” now.
Assuming that most Americans want our borders to be under control, this new crisis could become the Biden administration’s first major test. I hope they will restart construction of the wall.
You could say it takes a village of idiots to make the mistake WAPO and confederate media made in reporting this story. But that would be cynical.
More dispassionately, how much of our opinions about the world is based on unreliable journalism?
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