Economics

In an op-ed entitled "A Great Idea Lives Forever. Shouldn’t Its Copyright?" in last Sunday's New York Times author Mark Helprin tries to make the case for eternal copyright. Once the state has dipped its enormous beak into the stream of your wealth and possessions they are allowed to flow from one generation to the next. Though they may be divided and diminished by inflation, … [Read more...] about Eternal Copyright

Today is Gas Out Day, a day of protest against high gas prices being organized through a grass-roots effort in emails and blogs. Here is a one description I grabbed off of somebody's blog: On May 15th 2007, all internet users are to not go to a gas station in protest of high gas prices. Gas is now over $3.00 a gallon in most places. There are 73,000,000+ American members … [Read more...] about Gas Out Day

Lou Dobbs testified before Congress last month about the supposed perils of free trade: Since the beginning of this new century, the United States has lost more than three million manufacturing jobs. Three million more jobs have been lost to cheap overseas labor markets… That's 6 million jobs. Donald Luskin points out that there are only 6.7 million unemployed people in the … [Read more...] about Lies, Damn Lies, and Lou Dobbs

I hate writing checks that end with To the Order of      United States Treasury        I just hate it. … [Read more...] about Don’t They Get Enough Money Without Needing Mine?

Today is tax day. Relax, it's not tax day for you unless you run a business. I incorporated my software consulting business a few years ago, so every year I have to file two sets of tax returns, one for the corporation and one for me. Corporate taxes are due today. Rather than wait until the last minute, I started working on them yesterday. At 8:30 pm. Now, eight hours … [Read more...] about The Pain of Taxation