Not PC

"... the political left has long had a remarkable lack of interest in how wealth is created. As far as they are concerned, wealth exist...

"T he most revealing truth about modern politics: 'Eat the rich' never targets the people who actually got rich by taking your ...

“T he history of the 20th century is full of examples of countries that set out to redistribute wealth and ended up redistributing poverty.”...

Cartoon by  Richard McGrail  from  The Free Radical I 've been reminded this morning about what a clueless fucking moron we had as a Pr...

Picture of New Zealand's richest man. Guaranteed a reaction  against his success by a certain sort of commentator ... E VERY SO OFTEN A ...

"L ET'S STRIP AWAY THE political gloss and assess the Green Party’s 2025 budget for what it is: a document heavy on ideology, neo-M...

"[T ]he Greens’ ... 'Green Budget' ... is more than just a Budget. It is their utopian vision for a different country. Unfortu...

"T he progressive personal income tax, the corporate income tax, and the capital gains tax all operate in essentially the same way as t...

"T he argument [is that]  Wealth is a privilege, and with it comes the obligation of paying tax to benefit society.     "This is, ...

"O ne-hundred years ago almost all the wealthy inherited their wealth. Today most billionaires become one through being entrepreneurs. ...

  How often do we hear that government "austerity" is destructive —that it is the job of government, or their central bank, to ...

It's been all too common for pro-socialist politicians here and elsewhere to talk up Sweden, to offer up it's "pro-socialist...

"O ne often overlooked consequence of regulation is that it adds to the complexity of decision-making. Thus government regulation tends...

“T he state — or, to make matters more concrete, the government — consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one w...

T he Greens's so-called "poverty plan" has two legs: 1) the government stealing capital from rich investors ; 2) so they can h...

"During the late 1920s, the living standard of American blue collar workers was far higher than 100 years earlier. And yet almost none...

"A friend who shall remain nameless suggested something last week that I can't shake: The pronouncements of progressive politician...

"[T] he New Zealand economy has not exactly been a staggering success in recent decades. Setting the tax debate to one side for the mom...

"C ontrary to the claim that taxpayer subsidies for higher education provide great social benefits, these subsidies actually are a weal...

The phrase “give back” is as common as it wrong. It implies that something was taken in the first place. It paints the successful entrepren...